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Justin Carlyle, 23 years old, photographed on the street in Kensington, a quarter of Philadelphia, has been living with addiction to fentanyl and other drugs for a decade. After a decade when overdosing young Americans devastated, deaths in the USA decreased under 35 years. The shift saves thousands of young life every year.
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Justin Carlyle, 23 years old, photographed on the street in Kensington, a quarter of Philadelphia, has been living with addiction to fentanyl and other drugs for a decade. After a decade when overdosing young Americans devastated, deaths in the USA decreased under 35 years. The shift saves thousands of young life every year.
Rachel Wisniewski/NPR
Fentanyl and other street medication have killed more than 230,000 people under the age of 35 in the United States in the past decade.
In the meantime, new federal data show thousands of human life every year at unprecedented speeds with unprecedented rate and savings.
What continues to drip the drop and with the federal financing cuts on the horizon?
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This episode was produced by Alejandra Marquez Janse. It was published by Andrea de Leon and Courtney Dorning. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.