80% of meth overdose deaths involve fentanyl Meth-fentanyl combinations are proving extraordinarily deadly in Ohio. About 80% of all meth deaths involve fentanyl or a fentanyl analog. Essentially, all of the massive increase in meth-related overdose deaths in Ohio can...
Drug policy — not drug use — is the cause of our overdose epidemic. Emphasis on drug checking and safe use needed. The federal government has released the latest drug use estimates for each state. The report confirms again what has been true for decades:...
Fatal meth overdoses soar to 526 in 2017 Cause: Fentanyl and carfentanil in meth Methamphetamine was involved in more than 500 overdose deaths of Ohioans in 2017, a huge jump from 2016 and a reflection of the state’s fast-changing overdose epidemic. Preliminary...
Can drug users speak? NPR is running a series on drug users in Vinton County, Ohio. In three stories broadcast so far, no drug users were heard from — not a word. Instead, people who use drugs were described by others and in the uniformly stereotypical terms...
