A federal plan to promote treatment and distribute overdose reversal drugs showed promise. Communities are trying to keep it going.
Opioid deaths rose 50 percent during the pandemic. In these places, they fell.
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A federal plan to promote treatment and distribute overdose reversal drugs showed promise. Communities are trying to keep it going.