Opioid Harm Reduction
Publications
In 2017, 47,600 people died of opioid-related overdose in the United States. This constitutes more than two-thirds of the country’s drug overdose deaths. Much of the risk has been attributed to the…
Reviewed work: Kenneth B. Morales et al., “Preference for drugs containing fentanyl from a cross-sectional survey of people who use illicit opioids in three United States cities,” Drug and…
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R Street Institute supported the production of this piece through a restricted grant to The Influence Foundation.
Many American teens report current or past non-medical use of prescription drugs, most often opioids. On its own, this is a public health concern because youth are at increased risk for serious…
Over 400,000 Americans have died from opioid abuse, be it heroin or synthetic prescriptions, since 1999. To put this death toll into perspective, roughly the same number of Americans perished in…
Two drug crises have fought their way to the top tier of American consciousness: prescription medication addiction and drug trafficking.
Sorting out the appropriate guiderails for the use of…
As the consequences of opioid misuse and abuse
continue to be a concern throughout the United States—from a rise in overdose
deaths to emergency
department visits—the priority to hone…
Harm reduction programs offer crucial services that save lives and decrease disease transmission. They also encourage interaction with medical professionals, which can improve individual and…
Harm reduction approaches to manage the risks or consequences from opioid use have already helped reduce rates of infectious disease transmission from injection drug use and overdose deaths. They…