'We need a massive paradigm shift' | Overdose Rates for Native Americans Up 15%, New CDC Data Shows

Toni Wakemup (Bois Forte Band of Chippewa) was at her tribe's Mid-Winter Powwow – an event she helps organize – last year when she received a text message that would change her life. Her cousin Jeremy Hoagland, who grew up in the same household and whom she considered a brother, had died of a fentanyl overdose. "I got a text that said, 'Jeremy died,'" Wakemup told Native…
Source: Red Lake Nation News