The increase comes as Alaska scrambles to respond to an epidemic that continues to shift form.
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A grieving father helped develop a new Anchorage curriculum on the dangers of opioids
The curriculum teaches kids how addiction works and what it feels like to withdraw from opioids. It’s called “Kellsie’s Lesson.”
Ketchikan tribe’s business arm eyes ‘healing center’ to help with opioid crisis
It will be the first major project for the Ketchikan Tribal Business Corporation.
Rise in fentanyl in Alaska prompts switch to stronger overdose reversal drug
The rise in fentanyl has prompted the state to start giving out a more powerful overdose-reversing medicine.
Public can weigh in on how Alaska should use millions of opioid settlement money
Council recommends investing settlement money so it can fund opioid abuse recovery efforts in perpetuity.
Her son died of an overdose in Anchorage. Now she’s pushing for city police to carry Narcan.
While many police departments across the state use Narcan, the Anchorage Police Department — the state’s largest law enforcement agency — does not.