White Earth, Minn. – North America is struggling with an opioid overdose epidemic that cuts across all dividing lines; race, gender, age, socioeconomic status, and culture. Native Nations suffer this grief and loss along with all other American communities. Results of a unique, new program to address local contributing factors to overdose deaths in White Earth Ojibwe/Anishinaabe Nation, in northern Minnesota, have just been published in the NDEWS Minnesota HotSpot report, Reducing opioid overdose deaths in Minnesota: Insights from one tribal nation.

Press Release: White Earth Nation and U of M Medical School, Duluth Campus Combine Cutting-edge Public Health Methods with Indigenous Research to Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths and Help Communities Heal

Report: Reducing opioid overdose deaths in Minnesota: Insights from one tribal nation