Families and advocates this week are remembering loved ones who’ve died in the opioid epidemic as part of events observing International Overdose Awareness Day, which falls on August 31.
For the first time in years, the number of people who died from drug overdose deaths across the Delaware Valley and the U.S. dropped in 2024.
Experts credit widespread harm reduction tactics like naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal medication, access to addiction treatment programs and a changing street drug supply…