The HEALing Communities Study (HCS) has developed a series of ready-to-use communication campaigns designed to increase awareness about substance use disorders and effective response strategies to help strengthen local prevention, treatment, recovery, and overdose prevention efforts. These free toolkits make it easy for you to share critical information in your community through social media, radio, print materials, and more. Whether you’re part of a community coalition, loca

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing  to discuss the dangers of fentanyl, its impact on communities, and legislative solutions. Fentanyl overdoses remain near record high, with data from 2023 revealing around 200 people die from fentanyl overdoses every day. The lethal dose of fentanyl is 2 milligrams; one teaspoon can kill 2,000 people. During the hearing, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) called for Congress to pass the bi-partisan Halt Leth

The HIDTA Enhancement Act of 2024 was introduced in the Senate last week by Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)

In a large-scale effort to make fentanyl and counterfeit pill education resources available to communities, The Addiction Policy Forum...

The staggering increase in drug overdose deaths has been driven largely by the high prevalence of potent synthetic opioids, such as...

The involvement of xylazine in illicitly manufactured fentanyl-related overdose deaths increased nearly three-fold over the 3.5-year...

This webinar, held by Addiction Policy Forum, discussed recent data on the impact of fentanyl on communities across the country, and new...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued a recent alert about the widespread threat of fentanyl mixed with xylazine, an animal...

Fentanyl and other high-potency synthetic opioids are increasingly present in the U.S. drug supply. Healthcare systems, treatment...

New APF eCourse Available Synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, were involved in 65% of all overdose deaths in the US by June, 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Law enforcement agencies report that fentanyl is present in all 50 states in urban, suburban and rural communities. The Addiction Policy Forum, in partnership with the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), developed an eCourse, Fentanyl Facts

New OUD research summarized for helps officials, practitioners, families, patients, and communities

Legislation to combat fentanyl and the devastation it causes in our communities nationwide.

Synthetic opioids like fentanyl accounted for around 3,000 deaths in 2013—by 2018, they accounted for over 30,000

Cocaine and fentanyl are proving to be a lethal combination.

The opioid epidemic is a devastating public health crisis - over 47,600 overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid.