A resolution before the D.C. Council is calling on Bowser to declare a public health emergency as the city is on track to record another year of record-high fatalities.

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

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

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