Tag: opioids
Health Care Workers Need to Be Watching the Splintering Drug Supply
In the summer of 2016, the synthetic cannabinoid “K2” burst into the drug landscape ...
How Overdose Surged for Black People as It Held Steady for Whites
As opioid-involved overdose fatalities were holding steady for most racial groups prior to the ...
Why San Francisco Drug Users Are Injecting Less, Smoking Fentanyl More
Many people who use drugs in San Francisco have been reducing their injecting of ...
Biden Looks to Make Harsh Criminalization of Fentanyl Analogs Permanent
President Joe Biden is seeking to extend indefinitely a Trump-era rule on the scheduling ...
Rural Counties Awarded $78 Million through Opioid Response Program
The federal government has allocated more than $80 million to combat the opioid-involved overdose ...
Will Missouri’s Opioid Settlement Payout Mean Much for Harm Reduction?
At least 1,921 Missourians died of opioid-involved overdose in 2020, an increase of almost ...
You Can No Longer Be Arrested for Carrying Fentanyl Test Strips in Philly
On August 2, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced that city police will no longer ...
Vancouver Activists Hand Out Drugs, Demand Better Safe Supply Options
On July 14 Jean Swanson, a city councillor of Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), helped ...
Rhode Island on the Brink of Authorizing Safe Consumption Sites
On June 29, the Rhode Island House of Representatives voted in favor of a ...
Orlando, Florida, Gets Its First Syringe Program—With Strings Attached
Orange County, Florida, launched its first syringe service program (SSP) on June 1. The ...
