“We were seeing a lot of folks coming through who were Native and actively using...There just weren’t very many resources available to folks who weren’t ready to stop.” --Jack Loftus, who distributed clean syringes out of the back his car... thenation.com/article/societ…

An Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction Exists. Why Isn't It Used More? nytimes.com/2025/02/16/mag… #buprenorphine #EndNativeOverdose

Overdose deaths on Alamo reservation increased 306% in past year reuters.com/world/us/us-fe…

“The behavior of stockpiling opioids and prescription medications in our medicine cabinets for ’a rainy day’ must change before it ends us...” nativenewsonline.net/sponsored-cont…

From Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. Chief of the Cherokee Nation. We are so lucky here in Oklahoma to have him leading the way in tribally operated harm reduction programs. Thank you!!!! nativenewsonline.net/opinion/harm-r…

Noah Ayala died of a fentanyl overdose the first time he tried drugs. Noah Giovanni Ayala was born in 2006 and died in 2024. #EndOverdose #EndNativeOverdose #NoahAyala azcentral.com/story/opinion/…

"But this tiny community has been hit hard: five young men lost to fentanyl overdoses, three from the same 2021 high school graduating class of just 35 kids. Imagine that—one in ten classmates gone in a single year." youtube.com/watch?v=gJH6DV…

The declaration was set to expire on March 21, 2025. The renewal extends the declaration for another 90 days. nativenewsonline.net/health/secreta…

Will I see you there?? nationalcowboymuseum.org/red-earth-fest…

NARCAT is COMING SOON!! Narcats World is an e-training game developed by End Overdose to teach overdose response in an engaging, arcade-style format. #NarcatsWorld #EndOverdose

Some hopeful news on the decline in overdose deaths. This reporter celebrates it but also calls it baffling. ijpr.org/npr-news/2025-…

A new study reveals that 79,355 U.S. citizens died from opioid overdoses in 2023, marking a 12 percent increase from 2022, which is the highest recorded in U.S. history. digitaljournal.com/life/us-opioid…

FBI sending personnel to field offices in 10 states to investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country and address high rates of violence affecting Native American communities. The states are NM, AZ, CO, MI, MN, OK, WA, UT, OR and MS wsoctv.com/news/unsolved-…

APRIL 8 -- Elyse Wild, senior editor for Native News Online, will deliver her lecture, “Two Medicines: Reporting on How Culture is Healing Native American Communities from the Opioid Crisis.” sdstate.edu/news/2025/04/s…

Thank you Citizen Potawatomi Nation! So proud of the tribes in my home state of Oklahoma for all they do to fight the fentanyl crisis. As someone commented on their FB post, "EVERYONE SHOULD CARRY NARCAN..." You never know when you might need it to save someone's life. Citizen Potawatomi Nation

These cuts are occurring during one of the most severe public health crises in U.S. history, and this crisis is impacting our Native brothers and sisters at a disproportionate rate. knopnews2.com/2025/04/04/neb… #HarmReductionisLove #Nebraska

The Tribal Opioid Response Grant, specifically, is facing threats, among other programs and projects for #NativeAmericans nativenewsonline.net/health/the-hea…

Rain wanted to be a teacher. She died after taking a XANAX laced with FENTANYL. kfor.com/video/rains-la… #okleg #OKLeg #RainsLaw @SenatorDWeaver Representative Ronny Johns

Congratulations to the Tule River Indian Health Center, Inc. on the opening of wellness vending machine at the Tule River Indian Reservation! Tule River Tribe of CA #tuleriver #TuleRiverTribe TuleRiverTribe recorderonline.com/gallery/tule-r…

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness / you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho / lies dead by the side of the road. / You must see how this could be you, / how he too was someone /who journeyed through the night with plans... poets.org/poem/kindness