The facility, also called a stabilization center, is near Union Station and designed to be an alternative to the emergency room for people undergoing a substance use crisis.

While none of the 29 reported overdoses were fatal, the spike is another concerning turn in the region’s ongoing opioid crisis.

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

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

The report showed that “virtually no one” received complete continuity of care for substance use disorders before, during or after incarceration in the D.C. Jail.

The easy-to-use drug can prevent death if someone overdoses on opioids.

Roughly 745 people in the District died from opioid use from January 2014 to March 2018.

It comes after criticism of her administration’s response to the city’s opioid crisis.

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