Suhanee Mitragotri is an undergraduate student at Harvard University studying Neuroscience with a Secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. She is also the Co-Founder of the Naloxone Education Initiative, a program that aims to expand opioid and naloxone education to youth. She has written extensively on topics related to the opioid crisis, harm reduction, and drug policy.
While the drop in drug overdose deaths is promising, and could potentially be partially attributed to the efforts of the federal government, we must remain cognizant about the sheer number of lives we continue to lose every year to overdose.