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It’s time for Pa. to stop allowing overdose deaths to be treated like homicides | Opinion

Allowing prosecutors to utilize a criminal charge called "drug delivery resulting in death" was intended to deter fatal overdoses. It hasn't.

A box of the overdose-reversal drug naloxone. The possibility of facing a drug delivery resulting in death charge may deter some co-users from helping those experiencing overdoses, the authors write.
A box of the overdose-reversal drug naloxone. The possibility of facing a drug delivery resulting in death charge may deter some co-users from helping those experiencing overdoses, the authors write.Read moreMandi Wright, Detroit Free Press
    by Rebecca Arden Harris, Shoshana Aronowitz, Rachel French, and David S. Mandell, For The Inquirer
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