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Justin Carlyle, age 23, photographed on the street in Kensington, a neighborhood of Philadelphia, has lived with addiction to fentanyl and other drugs for a decade. After a decade when overdoses devastated young Americans, drug deaths among people in the U.S. under age 35 are plummeting. The shift is saving thousands of young lives every year.

U.S. drug deaths dropped by roughly 40% last year among people under the age of 35. It’s a welcome pivot for families and communities devastated by fentanyl.

(Image credit: Rachel Wisniewski for NPR)

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