Empowering Cities: Local Solutions for a National Opioid Emergency

As municipal management professionals, we face a myriad of challenges every day. Among the most pressing of these is the opioid crisis, a public health emergency that continues to claim the lives of many Americans. Federal government declared the opioid epidemic a public health crisis in 2017, yet the mortality rates related to opioids remain high. Despite the efforts to combat this crisis, more than five Americans succumb to opioid-related drug overdoses every hour.