Bereaved mothers fighting for a change in national drug laws

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Bereaved mothers fighting for a change in national drug laws

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) -- Mothers who have lost their children to drug overdoses say one way to cut down on the death toll could be to decriminalize all drugs. An alarming trend of increasing opiate overdose deaths in 2023 is continuing in the first months of 2024, so much so that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared a nationwide crisis. But this small group of mothers, led by JOLT Foundation's Tamara Olt, said making …