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Native communities combat opioid epidemic by fusing cultural traditions and Western medicine
Podcast |
Soundside
Publisher |
KUOW
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Daily News
News
Publication Date |
Dec 12, 2023
Episode Duration |
00:27:32

The Lummi Nation declared a state of emergency in September after they lost five tribal members in one week to overdose deaths. Overdose deaths in native communities have been increasing in recent years and American Indian and Alaska Native populations had the highest drug overdose death rates of any racial or ethnic group in both 2020 and 2021, according to the CDC. 

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