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Dec 06, 2021

D.C. Area Set To Record Even Deadlier Year For Opioid Overdoses

Fatal opioid overdoses surged in 2020. Now, this year is projected to be even deadlier than the last.

Aug 31, 2021

Arlington County Will Give Out Fentanyl Test Strips To People Released From Incarceration

D.C. and Arlington are both working to make the overdose-reversal drug naloxone more widely available, amid a dramatic rise in overdose deaths.

Aug 15, 2016

Christopher Barry, Son Of Marion Barry, Dies At 36

From an apparent drug overdose.

May 18, 2016

D.C. Health Department Expands Access To Heroin Overdose Antidote Naloxone

Naloxone can now be obtained at HIPS and Family and Medical Counseling Services.

 
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