Tag: overdose
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 ...
California’s Struggle for Safe Consumption Spaces Moves Forward
In California, the grassroots-led struggle for safe consumption spaces has taken a big step ...
Pandemic Is Making Overdoses Deadlier, Research Shows
Nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the first available research has finally ...
I Recently Used Naloxone to Save a Life. Limiting Access Is Unforgivable.
One moment, I was dabbing off a smudge of eyeliner in front of the ...
Harm Reduction “Satellite Sites” Are a Powerful, Underutilized Model
People who use drugs have been taking care of each other ever since people ...
Saving Lives or “Promoting” Use? Judges to Decide Safehouse’s Purpose—And Future
The future of what could be the United States’ first legal safe consumption site ...
