SPECIAL | On the frontlines of the fentanyl crisis, is Naloxone the answer?
The Excerpt
USA TODAY
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Deaths from fentanyl are falling. The promising news comes as the overdose antidote naloxone becomes more widely available. But are dropping death rates concealing other issues in the fight against this brutal form of addiction? Reuters Investigative Reporter Maurice Tamman joined The Excerpt to discuss what he's seeing on the ground where addiction and death are still the reality.
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| 1:14.7 | Hello and welcome to the excerpt. I'm Taylor Wilson. |
| 1:21.1 | Today is Thursday, January 23, 2025, and this is a special episode of The Excerpt. |
| 1:29.5 | There's been a major change to the conversation around opioid addiction in America. |
| 1:31.8 | Deaths from fentanyl are falling. |
| 1:36.7 | The promising news comes as the overdose antidote naloxone becomes more widely available, |
| 1:42.3 | but are dropping death rates concealing other issues in the fight against this brutal form of addiction? |
| 1:47.0 | Here to help us make sense of what's happening is Reuters investigative reporter Mo Tammin. |
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