President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress as the U.S. overdose death toll hit a new record of nearly 107,000 during the past 12 months.
“All too often, these drugs wind up in communities where naloxone isn’t readily available,” Gupta said Wednesday, referring to the medication that can revive users who have overdosed, “where harm reduction services are restricted or underfunded, where there are unacceptable barriers to treatment.”that prevent overdoses by checking drugs for fentanyl and clean syringe programs are other examples of harm reduction.
Harm reduction prevents overdoses, reduces the transmission of infectious diseases and “as declared in a recentOffice of National Drug Control PolicyTargeting the financial activities of transnational criminal organizations that manufacture and traffic illicit drugs in the United States.Improving data systems and research that guide drug policy.
Making sure the people most in danger of overdose can get evidence-based treatments, including people experiencing homelessness and those in prison or jail.The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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