Tag: COVID-19
Feds Extend COVID-Era Bupe Telemedicine Flexibilities, Again
On December 31, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Health and Human ...
Approaching COVID Vaccine Hesitancy in People Who Use Drugs
One of the many harms of the stigma society inflicts on marginalized people who ...
WA Prisons Staffing Model Is Harmful. No Other States Use It. Why Keep It?
Around 30 years ago, Washington State Department of Corrections (WDOC) took an unusual approach ...
SAMHSA’s Methadone Reforms Toothless Until We End Clinics’ Power
The COVID-19 pandemic and record overdose tolls have continued to pressure the Substance Abuse ...
Buprenorphine Access: Telehealth Revolution Faces Uncertain Future
This summer, a young woman was revived by paramedics after an overdose at her ...
Methadone, the Early Pandemic and the Terror of a Poppyseed Positive
I was going to the methadone clinic weekly when the pandemic began. That was ...
A Pandemic of Anxiety in Prison
For several months, the country’s COVID cases have been in a relative downtrend. In ...
Out Early From a 15-Year Carfentanil Sentence, Her Next Fight Begins
Wendy Kraus-Heitmann has had a hard life, but one that someone could write a ...
Dire Harm Reduction Funding Gap for Lower-Income Countries Is Growing
Last year, Harm Reduction International (HRI) released a report that found funding for harm ...
As a Methadone Patient, I Demand No Return to the Pre-COVID Status Quo
COVID-19 made us rethink how and why we were doing all kinds of things ...
