By Lindsay Smith Rogers
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, faith leaders and public health officials have come together to reach communities most at risk. Faith leaders became credible sources for COVID-19 information, and places of worship became trusted access points for testing and vaccinations. This partnership of faith and science offers opportunities for addressing another public health emergency: the opioid epidemic.
The CDC estimates that nearly 841,000 Americans have died from drug overdoses since 1999. The COVID-19 pandemic has only inflamed the crisis: 88,000 people died from overdoses between August 2019 and August 2020 alone.
Like COVID-19, the urgency of the opioid crisis must be met with creative, cross-sector solutions. Toward that end, the Clinton Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Centre for Responsible Leadership are partnering to convene national leaders from science and faith for quarterly discussions about how to work co
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The CDC estimates that nearly 841,000 Americans have died from drug overdoses since 1999, making the modern addiction and overdose epidemic the worst in our nation’s history.