The US saw a significant drop in the number of drug overdose deaths. The Trump administration has a shot at keeping the trend going. STAT News's addiction reporter, Lev Facher, explains. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. An addiction recovery billboard in Minneapolis. Photo by Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The U.S. has been dealing with an opioid epidemic for a generation. It's been bad. Hundreds of thousands of deaths in America. And then it got even worse during COVID. Last year, you might recall, Sean talked to a Wall Street Journal reporter who had started carrying Narcan in her purse, just in case. It's very small. You can fit it anywhere. I have two doses of it in my purse.
I carry all the time. I hope I never have to use them. But, you know, it's pretty easy to carry around. So this is how grim it had gotten, ordinary people preparing themselves to intervene in case of an OD. But then, over the past year, something unexpected and very, very good happened. Overdose deaths started dropping fast. What on earth happened is ahead on Today Explained. Today Explained
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My name is Lev Fasher, and I am a reporter at Stat covering substance use and the U.S. overdose crisis.
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