Overdose deaths between 2017-2018 decreased for the first time since 1999. While this decrease may be reason for hope that the opioid crisis may have peaked, in 2018, we still had more than 67,000 deaths, 185 per day, and nearly 70 percent were linked to opioids. Clearly, there is still much work to be done. The Partnership to End Addiction (formerly the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids) has been addressing the opioid epidemic since the early 2000s, and in 2012 brought together a group of partners from the public and private sectors to form the Medicine Abuse Project. This national action campaign aims to reduce teen initiation of medicine misuse. It provides comprehensive resources for parents and caregivers, law enforcement officials, health care providers, educators and others so that everyone can take a stand and help end this epidemic. Source: https://drugfree.org/article/medicine-abuse-project-partners/