This week, This Is Nashville took a deep look into the innovative — and at times controversial — approaches to getting out of the opioid addiction crisis. The latest available data has Tennessee losing 3,600 people a year to fatal drug overdoses.
The numbers in Davidson County are on a downward trend — which is something to celebrate. But it’s unclear how much credit to give tactics known as “harm reduction,” in which people help folks use drugs more safely without necessarily trying to get them to stop. The method is all about saving lives.
Below, you’ll find links to each of the four episodes, as well as an audio feature from each day.
Anyone need Narcan? Save a life.
On the Sept. 9, 2025, episode of This Is Nashville, medical professionals, professors and nonprofits sat down at the mic to talk about sanctioned, legal, harm reduction…