Ambitious federal study failed to curb opioid deaths, NIH announces
In 2019, amid an ever-worsening drug crisis, the federal government launched a research study with an ambitious goal: to lower opioid overdoses in participating communities by 40% using evidence-based interventions like distributing naloxone and providing access to addiction medications.
But communities that implemented the public health strategies did not see a statistically significant reduction in opioid overdose deaths, according to data published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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