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Does Your  Reporting Pass  The Tyler Test 

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Why do I need The Tyler Test?

If you are reporting on overdoses and miss the opportunity to include public health and safety information, your story fails The Tyler Test.

 

It’s that simple.

Overdoses aren't inevitable.

An estimated more than 100,000 individuals had preventable drug-related deaths last year and numbers are increasing each year. How we report on overdoses has never been more important.

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If the experts at AP, “argue that media can play a critical role in showing that suicide is not inevitable,” then I’d like to argue...that the media play a more critical role in showing that overdoses are not inevitable either.

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Incredible effort has been made to shift perspective on how we report on suicide. In place of a definitive resource dedicated to reporting on overdoses as a matter of public health, [The Tyler Test] offers three ways anyone reporting on overdoses can improve how they frame any story.

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