Tag: overdose
How Harm Reduction Is Serving—and Failing—Asian Americans
The “4th wave of the overdose crisis” has arrived, tweeted Brett Giroir, a top ...
Feds Dispute the Efficacy of Safe Consumption Sites at Safehouse Hearing
On August 19 a federal judge in Philadelphia presided over the opening salvo of ...
Lisa’s Legacy: How the Buprenorphine X-Waiver Costs Lives
The young woman paced frantically around the hospital room, dark bags under her bloodshot ...
Man Who Died of OD Was Allegedly “Kicked Out of Treatment for Smoking”
I can’t lose everything,” Paul Reithlinghshoefer told his mother when he relapsed back to ...
2020 Candidate Andrew Yang Tweets Support for Safe Consumption Sites
On August 7, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang tweeted his support for safe consumption ...
“Go Slow”—Baltimore’s Peer-Led Fentanyl Harm Reduction Campaign
Public education campaigns about drugs often rely on ineffective and stigmatizing scare tactics. They ...
CDC: Fatal Overdoses Are More Common in Cities Than Rural Areas
In 2017, overdoses in urban areas occurred more frequently than those in rural places, ...
Why Those of Us Who Choose Sobriety Should Back Safe Consumption Sites
In many areas of public health and medicine, best practices are routinely adopted without ...
Rising Meth-Involved Deaths of Major Concern Amid Estimated 2018 Overdose Fall
For the first time since the 1990s, fatal drug overdoses decreased in 2018, according ...
Almost 80 Percent of Heroin Users in Boston, Baltimore Would Visit Safe Consumption Sites
A large majority of people who use opioids in three coastal cities would utilize ...
