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More widespread naloxone distribution, including to injection drug users and their families, is one way to combat the state- and nationwide increase in fentanyl-related deaths, suggests Gordon Smith, an epidemiologist with the WVU School of Public Health. He and Marie Abate, the director of programmatic assessment for the WVU School of Pharmacy, and Zheng Dai, a WVU doctoral student, studied trends in drug-related deaths between 2005 and 2017 in West Virginia. They discovered a surge in deaths related to fentanyl and fentanyl-related analogs.

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