Tag: overdose
What to Make of a Drug-Induced Homicide Charge After a Prosecutor’s OD Death?
Rodney Hasty, a prosecutor in Asheville, North Carolina for 18 years, died unexpectedly last ...
CDC and NIDA Will Finally Study Potential of Safe Consumption Sites
For the first time ever, Congress has weighed in on the issue of safe ...
NYC Revamps Pharmacies’ Role in Preventing Overdose Deaths
New York City, like the rest of the country, is facing a historic overdose ...
2020’s Biggest Wins and Losses for Canadians Who Use Drugs
Though 2020 was characterized primarily by the catastrophe of COVID-19, Canada’s public health landscape ...
Overdose Survivors’ Top Priorities Are Basic Needs, Research Shows
A new study elevating the voices of opioid users who survived an overdose found ...
CDC Recommends Drug-Checking Services Amid Historic Overdose Deaths
As the already-staggering death toll of the overdose crisis reaches historic heights, the United ...
Eureka, California, Drives Out Its Syringe Service Program
A political battle in Northern California has ended in the partial closure of a ...
Indian Health Service’s OD-Vulnerable Patients Aren’t Getting Naloxone
The federal health agency serving federally recognized tribal members achieved its goal of reducing ...
San Francisco Drug Users Face Soaring Deaths. Solidarity Can Sustain Us.
My stomach was churning frantically as I lay strapped to a gurney in San ...
States Squander Opportunity of Billions of Dollars in Federal Treatment Grants
The overdose crisis is claiming a historic number of lives almost every year in ...
