It’s clear there’s a critical need to address substance use disorder and mental health issues in every sector of our country.

SAFE Project’s new SAFE Workplaces initiative is bringing prevention resources like Deterra to the workplace to help reduce the risk of drug misuse.

Verde Technologies CEO Jason Sundby joined a Native News Online panel to discuss how at-home drug deactivation and disposal can help tackle opioid abuse in tribal communities.

New mandates in New York’s Rensselaer and Albany Counties require pharmacies to provide drug deactivation and disposal products with all opioid prescriptions.

More than 93,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2020, preliminary CDC data shows. That’s a nearly 30% increase from 2019 and the highest number of overdose fatalities ever recorded in the U.S. Opioid misuse was behind the majority of these deaths.

The Summit County Council heard a recommendation from the Opiate Abatement Advisory Council to use opioid settlement funds to procure Deterra Pouches for residents to safely destroy unused medications.