Counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl are driving a spike in Oklahoma deaths
State investigators have found nearly two dozen fatal overdoses over the past 15 months tied to fake oxycodone.
Most of the money Oklahoma secured from opioid companies has gone unspent
The state secured more than $372.6 million in settlements with drug makers and distributors, but only a fraction of the money has so far gone to pay for addiction research and treatment.
As COVID-19 cases surge in Oklahoma, state health officials look to re-hire contact tracers
The Oklahoma State Department of Health had as many as 175 contact tracers last year, but is down to about 30 today. It needs to almost double that number to deal with a growing number of COVID-19 cases.
Frontier reporter wins fellowship to report on women’s health issues
Kassie McClung will investigate why babies and pregnant women in Oklahoma have some of the worst health outcomes in the nation.
Delta variant main concern of health officials in Oklahoma, but its full spread is unclear
A lack of genomic testing so far has limited the understanding of how far the more transmissible variant has spread across the state
Budget cuts have reduced access to social services in some of Oklahoma’s poorest communities
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services permanently shuttered dozens of offices over the last year in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and state budget cuts. The move left schools and law enforcement to fill the gaps in some rural parts of the state.
She spent six months in an Oklahoma jail waiting for mental health treatment
Growing demand for beds means there’s a long waiting list for people with severe mental illness trapped in the state’s criminal justice system.
Oklahoma’s efforts to end its rape kit backlog have led to new delays
As Oklahoma works to address the problem of thousands of old untested rape kits, new laws and a lack of manpower have created a backlog of newer untested kits for much of the state.
