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Nevada’S Secret Killer: Opioid Deaths, Vanessa Marie Booth
Nevada’S Secret Killer: Opioid Deaths, Vanessa Marie Booth
Calvert Undergraduate Research Awards
Emerging Scholars Winner
Presented in this study is an analysis of the Nevada opioid crisis and how a viable solution can impact its severity. It does so in a public policy environment while synthesizing outside sources to support the presented claims. The scope of this study is to present a problem, cause, solution scenario on how to solve this policy problem. This study also takes into consideration Nevada’s current economic state amid the coronavirus (COVID-19). In addition, this analysis also addresses the history behind the opioid epidemic across the United States and how it is impacting Nevada in present times. …