In December, the federal government announced it would classify illicit fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction.” Having buried my son after his fentanyl-involved overdose, I understand the desperation that might cause people to support such a declaration. When your child dies, you want the country to finally treat the crisis with the gravity it deserves. But my son’s struggle taught me that extreme, punitive measures will lead us further away from what would have saved him

A powerful video from Broken No More with support from Vital Strategies of three women who have lost loved ones to overdose. In this...

I lost my son, Tyler, to an accidental overdose in 2020. Since then, I’ve met parents grieving the loss of their children who battled substa