Opioid Harm Reduction
Publications
Drug addicts shooting up. Needle-wielding deviants running rampant. Police standing idly by as heroin flows into arms, and needles are swapped in streets and parks. This is the grim picture the New…
From Marijuana Moment:
The R Street Institute is asking Congress to reject the Biden administration’s proposal to permanently control fentanyl-related substances in Schedule I.
WASHINGTON (Sept. 8, 2021)—Last week, on behalf of the Biden-Harris administration, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice…
Dear President Biden and Vice President Harris:
The 142 undersigned organizations write to urge the Biden administration and Congress to let the Trump administration temporary “classwide”…
In 2020, more than 90,000 people in the United States died of a drug overdose. Nearly two-thirds of those deaths involved synthetic opioids such as fentanyl and its analogues, often collectively…
In April 2021, the Biden-Harris administration unlocked federal funding to support the purchase and distribution of rapid fentanyl test strips (FTS). Originally developed to detect fentanyl in urine,…
In recent years, synthetic opioids have driven rising overdose death rates in the United States, undermining progress in combating the broader opioid and overdose crises. Since 2019, approximately 75…
Article: Assessing HIV and overdose risks for people who use drugs exposed to compulsory drug abstinence programs (CDAP): A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2021). Anh T. Vo, Christopher Magana,…
REVIEW OF: Jack Stone et al. “Modeling the role of incarceration in HCV transmission and prevention amongst people who inject drugs in rural Kentucky,” International Journal of Drug Policy…
REVIEW OF: Melissa Davoust et al., “Examining the implementation of police-assisted referral programs for substance use disorder services in Massachusetts,” International Journal of Drug Policy…