I offer everyone my best wishes for a happy and healthy new year. The start of a year offers us the promise of a new beginning, and I am most hopeful in 2024 that we will continue to see a downward trend in the number of lives lost to drug overdoses in our state. PDFNJ will continue to provide a vision of how to make progress this year through the Knock Out Opioid Abuse Learning Series, as well as other prevention programs and services. One way in which we all need to address the crisis is to have a better understanding of the many different forms of opioids that are out there, both those that are prescribed and the illicit forms sold on the street. This article from HealthyPlace.com provides good information on this topic.