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