Feds focus on naloxone and fentanyl test strips, blame COVID‐19 for OD increases

Abstract

Last week, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the predicted overdose death count for the 12‐month period ending April 2021 is more than 100,000. That's one death every five minutes, said Rahul Gupta, M.D., director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), at a Nov. 17 press briefing with the heads of the CDC, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).