Tag: opioids
Prisoner Who Sued for Access to OUD Meds Is in Solitary as “Retaliation”
The man at the center of a pivotal legal battle over access to methadone ...
Drug Euphoria Is a Good Thing, Actually
Back before I’d ever heard of harm reduction, I spent a lot of time ...
BC Has a Safe Supply of Smokable Heroin and No One Can Use It Yet
For most of the nearly six years British Columbia’s overdose crisis has been declared ...
Parolees With Opioid Addiction Need Choices, Not a Naltrexone-Only Policy
Across the United States, people with opioid addiction who are on parole aren’t getting ...
Almost None of NC’s Drug Treatment Grant Recipients Offer Medication
North Carolina’s latest state budget allocated millions of dollars to organizations that will facilitate ...
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 ...
Learning the Blues: West Coast Grapples With Shifting Drug Supply
“Forever, the prevalence of what kinds of drugs people did was completely boring,” Alex ...
SAMHSA Weighs Permanent Methadone Take-Homes, Decades Too Late
In March 2020, to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infections among patients and staff, ...
A Court Rejected the Disease Theory of Opioid Addiction. Will We Listen?
The idea that opioid painkillers are inevitably addictive was put on trial and refuted. ...
Responding to the 2022 Global Drug Survey Will Help Other Drug Users
The world’s largest drug survey wants to know how you get high and why. ...
