CBS News Debate Moderators: Ask Vance & Walz About Overdose

Sign our petition calling for an overdose question at the vice presidential debate

The overdose crisis has not been getting the attention it deserves at the presidential debates. And we need your help to continue our demands to make it a priority on the debate stage before it’s too late.

This Tuesday, October 1, is the first vice presidential debate between Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz on CBS News. And with no other debates confirmed, this may be our last chance to demand a real conversation about the overdose crisis on the national debate stage.

Overdose deaths are preventable, but only if our elected leaders replace failed drug war policies with the health solutions that are proven to work. We need leaders with a plan to implement real solutions like allowing and opening overdose prevention centers, making evidence-based treatment accessible and available, ending the harms of criminalization, and expanding harm reduction and overdose prevention services.

Speak up now: tell CBS News moderators Norah O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan to ask Vance and Walz about the overdose crisis at Tuesday’s debate.