Tag: overdose
NYC Mayoral Forum Grills Candidates on Decriminalization and Overdose
Even before COVID-19 hit the city hard, New York’s elected officials failed for years ...
Harm Reduction Services to Get $30 Million in First-Ever Federal Funding
The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan signed into law last week contained a series ...
As People Who Use Drugs, We Urge Biden to End the Buprenorphine X-Waiver
In late January, the Biden Administration walked back one of the biggest steps toward ...
Will Rhode Island Be the First State to Legalize Safe Consumption Sites?
The prospect of safe consumption sites (SCS) for mitigating the United States’ historic overdose ...
How a Smartphone App Could Help Communities Respond to Overdoses
A smartphone app that activates civilian emergency responders to 911 calls has the potential ...
How Immediate Naloxone Access Is Going 24/7 in Indiana
The state of Indiana is dedicating tens of thousands of federal dollars to making ...
Boston’s “Methadone Mile” and the Wars on Drug Users, Unhoused People
Four gentrifying Boston neighborhoods—Roxbury, Dorchester, the South End and South Boston—collide and form the ...
The Kind Man Who Used to Sell Me Heroin
In popular culture, people who sell drugs are stereotyped as remorseless monsters, like the ...
Oregon Decriminalization Begins, But It Won’t Be Enough to End ODs
Across the state of Oregon, people found by police to be in possession of ...
Ohio Students Launch Harm Reduction and “Bad Batch” Alerts App
A student-led nonprofit in Columbus, Ohio, has created a smartphone app that helps community ...
