“It’s impossible to know how many teens in the country are being charged with drug-induced homicide. There is no national database, many states do not aggregate cases, and when prosecutors file in juvenile court, the records are sealed. As a result, there’s been almost no scrutiny of how these laws are used against kids,” Katie McCreedy ’21, a predoctoral fellow with the Action Lab at Northeastern Law’s Center of Health Policy and Law, tells ProPublica. “How can young people in media stories be simultaneously assumed to know nothing about how deadly the drugs are and also held accountable for homicide?”