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