Senators Hoeven and Cortez Masto introduced S. 465, the 'Bridging Agency Data Gaps & Ensuring Safety (BADGES) for Native Communities Act.'
It speaks to the lack of resources for education, for treatment, for preventive services and public safety in Alaska Nat...
Legislative solutions are needed to address the targeting that Tribes are experiencing.
we have a challenge that is so big and so enormous, it is going to take exactly what you all are doing in Lummi Nation.
I am so sorry that this is what the Lummi Nation has had to deal with.
we have to be doing more when it comes to treatment.
I want to thank her for sounding the alarm and asking for today's hearing.
They are targeting these small, remote, rural, vulnerable communities. It is the worst predation there can possibly be.
It is just really disturbing to know that among American Indians and Alaska Native populations we see the highest drug o...
we talked about fentanyl. There is a significant increase, significant provision in the supplement to combat fentanyl.
During the COVID pandemic, opioid overdose mortality rate among Alaska Native people doubled.