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Methamphetamine a big contributor to Alaska’s opioid-dominated overdose deaths, report says

Posted 6/17/25

While opioids have been involved in most of Alaska’s drug overdose deaths, another drug is a frequent contributor to those outcomes: methamphetamine. A little over half of the fatal overdoses in Alaska from 2017 to 2023 involved methamphetamine use, most commonly in combination with opioids but also sometimes in combination with other types of drugs, […]

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