Elena (left) and Vadim stay on the road in Kensington, a neighborhood of Philadelphia that has lengthy struggled with fentanyl and different drug use. Each advised NPR they’ve survived their drug use, partly, resulting from naloxone, or Narcan, a medicine that reverses opioid overdoses. NPR agreed to not use their final title as a result of road drug use is against the law.

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Elena (left) and Vadim stay on the road in Kensington, a neighborhood of Philadelphia that has lengthy struggled with fentanyl and different drug use. Each advised NPR they’ve survived their drug use, partly, resulting from naloxone, or Narcan, a medicine that reverses opioid overdoses. NPR agreed to not use their final title as a result of road drug use is against the law.

Rachel Wisniewski/NPR

The deadliest section of the U.S. fentanyl disaster seems to be over. That is in response to new analysis displaying deadly overdoses from fentanyl and different road medicine proceed to plunge and have now dropped from their peak in all 50 states.

However with that excellent news comes with challenges together with caring for a bigger inhabitants of individuals, who’re surviving, however could also be deeply unwell.

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This episode was produced by Taylor Haney, Brianna Scott and Connor Donevan, with audio engineering by Arthur Laurent.

It was edited by Courtney Dorning and Andrea De Leon.
Our govt producer is Sami Yenigun.