The number of annual drug overdoses has more than tripled in the last 20 years.
In 2024, over 80,000 people died from drug overdose in the US.
Each year, US taxpayers spend billions to enforce drug prohibition.
1 in 3 people in the US have lost someone they know to drug overdose.
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For over 100 years we’ve tried to decrease harm from drugs by arresting those who use them, but overdose still claims tens of thousands of people each year, and incarceration sends waves of harm through families and communities.