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2025
Narcan Funding Cuts Could Undermine Overdose Prevention Programs, Advocates Say -The New York Times (NYT), April 2025
Federal Budget Cuts Could Hamper Missouri Overdose Response - KBIA (KBIA), April 2025
Funding Cuts Threaten Missouri Program Providing Narcan - KRCG 13 (KRCG), April 2025
Federal Grant for Narcan, OD Training in Missouri May Get Cut; Advocates Argue It Saves Lives, Taxpayer Dollars - First Alert 4 (FA4), April 2025
Is Increased Availability of Naloxone Enabling Missouri Drug Users to Have Higher Highs? - Missourinet (MISSOURINET), April 2025
Drug Overdose Deaths Decrease in Missouri; Researchers Recommend Policy Changes to Continue Success - MSN (MSN), April 2025
Budget Cuts Could Affect Missouri Overdose Response - KBSI 23 (KBSI), April 2025
Leaked Federal Cuts Could Hurt Missouri Overdose Outreach - KOMU 8 (KOMU), April 2025
Federal Budget Cuts Could Harm Missouri Overdose Prevention, Advocates Warn -The Kansas City Star (KCS), April 2025
Local Advocates Say Lowering Overdose Trend May Reverse if Federal Health Cuts Are Passed - First Alert 4 (FA4), May 2025
2024
Missourians differ on how to spend millions in opioid settlement payouts - STLPR, Nov 2024
Missouri’s drug overdose deaths decline by 11%, but researcher says work is far from over - Missourinet, Oct 2024
Missouri sees 28% drop in overdose deaths compared to this time last year - First Alert 4, Oct 2024
Audrain County offers free fentanyl test strips amid ongoing opioid crisis - KOMU, Sept 2024
Kansas City-area emergency responders participate in joint overdose response training - KSHB, Aug 2024
UMSL-MIMH distributes millionth dose of naloxone in Missouri - KMOV, Mar 2024
Loss of friend to gun violence spurred Urban Community Health Worker of the Year to help others - First Alert 4, Mar 2024
Combating a Crisis: A roundtable on fentanyl - KMOV, Jan 2024
Academic research informs response to St. Louis overdose crisis as deaths remain high - KMOV, Jan 2024
2023
UMSL’s Addiction Science Team helps combat the opioid epidemic in Missouri - UMSL Daily, Nov 2023
As opioid overdose crisis continues, millions in settlement money arrives in Missouri - Fox 2 News, Nov 2023
Newly legal fentanyl testing strips help fight overdose deaths in MO - Public News Service, Nov 2023
For Immediate Release: Improving Access to Naloxone in St. Louis in Public Housing - Aug 2023
Substance users fall through the cracks as overdose epidemic rolls on - First Alert 4, Jul 2023
Advocates frustrated by lack of action one year after mass overdose at St. Louis high-rise - St. Louis Post Dispatch, Feb 2023
For Immediate Release: CENTER Initiative Remembers Parkview One Year Later: Further Action Needed - Feb 2023
Has Anything Changed Since St. Louis' Deadliest Mass Overdose? - Riverfront Times, Jan 2023
2022
St. Louis combats opioid crisis as overdose deaths skyrocket among Black Americans - PBS, Aug 2022
Black opioid overdose deaths in St. Louis are up 500% in 6 years - STL Public Radio, Apr 2022
Missouri’s fentanyl crisis is worsening, but patients can’t get treatment for substance abuse - STL Public Radio, Apr 2022
CENTER Initiative Urges Increased Investment in Wake of Recent Overdose Deaths - Feb 2022