opioids

Pennsylvania Bill Poised to Increase Barriers to Buprenorphine Access

A Pennsylvania state senator intends to reintroduce a bill that would impose new regulations on buprenorphine providers and create additional…

February 1, 2021

Ohio Students Launch Harm Reduction and “Bad Batch” Alerts App

A student-led nonprofit in Columbus, Ohio, has created a smartphone app that helps community members report "bad batches" of drugs…

January 28, 2021

Biden Is Opposing a Promising Step Toward Buprenorphine Deregulation

In the final week of former President Trump’s term, the US Department of Health and Human services (HHS) announced a…

January 27, 2021

Pharmacists May Be Key to Expanding Bupe Access, NIDA Pilot Shows

Collaboration between physicians and pharmacists may boost patients’ satisfaction with, and adherence to, buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD),…

January 13, 2021

DC Decriminalized Drug Paraphernalia. Here’s What That Means on the Ground.

On December 22, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) signed the Opioid Overdose Treatment and Prevention Omnibus Amendment Act…

January 4, 2021

Overdose Survivors’ Top Priorities Are Basic Needs, Research Shows

A new study elevating the voices of opioid users who survived an overdose found that emergency department (ED) healthcare workers…

December 28, 2020

How Artists Are Reimagining the Overdose Crisis

Last year, I volunteered at a harm reduction center where fights and cold sweats broke out, war stories and grudges…

December 17, 2020

Judge Grants Class Action Status to Methadone-Taper Jail Lawsuit

A federal judge has paved the way for a case against a methadone-taper policy at Cook County Jail, Illinois to…

December 7, 2020

A Fentanyl User’s Dispiriting Search for Safe Supply in Toronto

When I heard earlier this year that a safe supply of opioids would be made more widely available for people…

December 3, 2020

“Here to Make It Less Dangerous”—The Work of a Dark-Web Drug Seller

In today’s bifurcated illicit drug trade, it’s increasingly common for transactions to occur anonymously, online—on the 0.01 percent of the…

November 12, 2020