Spurred by a soaring rate of US deaths from drug overdoses, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new plan that pledges more federal support for a range of strategies to prevent overdoses, including needle-exchange programs and efforts to distribute test strips to check for fentanyl in street drugs, as well as other actions. Fatalities from drug overdoses have escalated over the past decade, with an estimated 840 000 such deaths occurring from 1999 through 2019. Overdoses have been driven