As the opioid crisis continues, the Alexandria Health Department is training staff at restaurants to use the naloxone nasal spray that reverses opioid overdoses.

As D.C. records its highest numbers of fatal overdoses, advocates are pushing leaders to invest in holistic harm reduction.

Students will have to get trained to carry the naloxone nasal spray Narcan. Arlington Public Schools says the measure is one of several they’re taking in response to a rise in opioid overdoses.

Black people in D.C. are arrested almost seven times as often as white people for opioid-related offenses.

Lawmakers in Virginia voted in 2019 to allow school nurses to carry and administer naloxone.

D.C. has had a 50% increase in opioid-related deaths in 2020, including a record high of 47 in April.

Overdoses claimed more than lives in D.C. since 2014. This group says another 158 will die in 2017.

The State Health Commissioner declared the opioid addiction a public health emergency.