Use + Harm Reduction
Only a Fraction of Medicare Recipients With Opioid Use Disorder Are Receiving Medication
Each year, hundreds of thousands of Medicare recipients with opioid use disorder (OUD) are ...
FDA Approves First Long-Lasting HIV PrEP Medication—But There’s a Catch
The FDA has approved the first injectable medication to protect against HIV transmission. Apretude ...
NYC’s Safe Consumption Sites Have Averted 63 Overdoses in Three Weeks
In the three weeks since the first authorized safe consumption sites (SCS) in the ...
Alcohol and Dementia: Why the Evidence Has Been Suppressed
A familiar substance has repeatedly been associated with protection against dementia. But we’re not ...
Learning the Blues: West Coast Grapples With Shifting Drug Supply
“Forever, the prevalence of what kinds of drugs people did was completely boring,” Alex ...
Federal Data Show Sharp Decrease in Teen Drug Use in 2021
On December 15, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)—a federal research agency in ...
SAMHSA Weighs Permanent Methadone Take-Homes, Decades Too Late
In March 2020, to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infections among patients and staff, ...
What I Wish Someone Had Said to Me When I Started Using Drugs
When I began using drugs, I didn’t have anyone I could safely go to ...
A Study Was Claimed to Link Vapes to Cigarette “Relapse”—Let’s take a Look
In October, Journal of the American Medical Association published a study that claimed e-cigs ...
Charleston’s Syringe Program Can Stay Open Despite Harsh WV Law
The only syringe service program (SSP) in Charleston, the capital of West Virginia, is ...
