Tag: opioids
2020 Candidate Andrew Yang Tweets Support for Safe Consumption Sites
On August 7, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang tweeted his support for safe consumption ...
Rising Meth-Involved Deaths of Major Concern Amid Estimated 2018 Overdose Fall
For the first time since the 1990s, fatal drug overdoses decreased in 2018, according ...
To Taper a Pain Patient? It’s Never One-Size-Fits-All
Many years ago, I broke my ankle—tibia and fibula—in a fall from a horse. ...
How Did We Come to Abandon America’s Pain Patients?
Overdoses—not those involving prescription opioids, but of heroin and illicit fentanyl, often combined with ...
Almost 80 Percent of Heroin Users in Boston, Baltimore Would Visit Safe Consumption Sites
A large majority of people who use opioids in three coastal cities would utilize ...
Overdoses Are Deadliest Within First Few Months Out of Delaware Prisons
In 2018, Delaware had the sixth highest number of overdose deaths in the country, ...
Nurse Who Gave Her Meds to MAT-Deprived Patients Convicted
On November 18, 2018 at Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center (MASAC) at Plymouth, ...
The Harm Reductionist Imprisoned by Ukraine Separatists for Carrying Bupe
For 10 months now, a Ukrainian harm reduction activist has been illegally detained by ...
NYC Syringe Programs Successfully Serving the Most Vulnerable New Yorkers
New York City’s syringe service programs (SSPs) are successfully getting harm reduction resources into ...
NYC Jail Deprived Trans Women of MAT for Years
Between 2015 and 2018, transgender women incarcerated in New York City’s first-of-its-kind Transgender Housing ...
