Justin Carlyle, age 23, photographed on the road in Kensington, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, has lived with habit to fentanyl and different medicine for a decade. After a decade when overdoses devastated younger Individuals, drug deaths amongst folks within the U.S. underneath age 35 are plummeting. The shift is saving 1000’s of younger lives yearly.
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Justin Carlyle, age 23, photographed on the road in Kensington, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, has lived with habit to fentanyl and different medicine for a decade. After a decade when overdoses devastated younger Individuals, drug deaths amongst folks within the U.S. underneath age 35 are plummeting. The shift is saving 1000’s of younger lives yearly.
Rachel Wisniewski/NPR
Fentanyl and different avenue medicine killed greater than 230 thousand folks underneath the age of 35 in the united statesover the final decade.
However now new federal knowledge exhibits drug deaths amongst younger persons are plummeting at an unprecedented fee – saving 1000’s of lives every year.
What’s driving the drop, and with federal funding cuts on the horizon will it proceed?
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