![]() It’s no secret that trauma often drives drug misuse. And unfortunately, many of President Joe Biden’s answers to the overdose increase - such as expanding criminalization-based drug courts, increasing court-mandated drug treatment, training police to administer overdose antidotes and emphasizing fentanyl criminalization - are also grounded in law enforcement. Republicans have wrongly pointed to the overdose crisis as a rationale for high levels of policing. While federal data are flawed in terms of delineating which drugs and drug combinations were involved in overdoses, the increase in deaths is clearly significant. Some of the most impacted groups have been Black and Indigenous communities. There was a particularly unprecedented rise in overdoses once the pandemic hit. a stark increase over 2019, when approximately 70,630 people died of overdoses. ![]() During the year ending in November 2020, approximately 92,000 people died of a drug overdose in the U.S. ![]() She was 29 years old.įatal overdoses like Keeley’s have increased steeply in recent years. My little sister Keeley died of a heroin and fentanyl overdose in February 2020, just as the pandemic was beginning to descend on the United States. ![]()
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