The toxic drug crisis is not only about fatalities. A much larger number of people survive overdoses, and are left with brain injuries. A national strategy to support and treat them is crucial.
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A Philadelphia neighborhood is pushing back against the city’s plan to expand an existing shelter to serve people in active addiction.
Alcohol is responsible for more deaths than overdoses from opioids and all other substances combined, yet less than 10% of people with alcohol use disorder receive treatment.
An anthropologist who wrote a book exploring meth’s impact on rural communities explains what drove the epidemic and how it’s changed.
Many people wrongly assume that cannabis use during pregnancy is safe. Research is increasingly documenting a host of serious health harms from prenatal exposure to cannabis and other substances.
Police diversion programs for drug users shift officers’ focus from criminalization to treatment.
New research shows that preventable deaths are increasing in the US at the same time that life expectancy keeps dropping.
The number of deaths related to alcohol use in the US grew by a staggering 25% between 2019 and 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Drugs can interact with one another in ways that are harmful. A study finds that taking oxycodone with certain SSRIs can make an opioid overdose more likely.
Non-opioid directives allow patients to refuse opioids in all health care settings. For surgical procedures that require anesthesia, however, this may do more harm than good.
Ending the opioid epidemic requires addressing not only treatment gaps in addiction and overdose, but also inadequate pain management.
Fentanyl adulteration led to the replacement of heroin in the unregulated drug supply of British Columbia. Now that benzodiazepines are present in many opioids, are we headed towards a ‘new normal?’
While the COVID-19 pandemic raged on, the opioid epidemic got worse as drug overdose deaths soared. New research proposes a way to chemically modify opioids to reduce the risk of addiction.
From expanding children’s coverage to reducing surprise bills, Biden and lawmakers may be able to broaden health care access.
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine goes to the discoverers of the hepatitis C virus. There’s an effective cure but homelessness and the opioid epidemic are driving a surge in infections.
Pharmacists are well positioned to provide communities with a lifesaving drug.
Treatments for opioid dependence, such as methadone and buprenorphine, are effective. But some people who stand to benefit are missing out.
About 1 in 4 people prescribed an opioid for pain end up abusing it. New methods to reduce the need for opioids after surgery have been shown to work – and thus minimize the need for such drugs.
Advice from the people who’ve reviewed all the latest evidence about the effectiveness of these painkillers.
While critics accuse companies facing lots of lawsuits of using bankruptcy as a sort of ‘get of jail free card,’ the reality of the legal procedure is more complicated.
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Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine; Weiner Hailey Family Professor, Tufts University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Social Work, Director of Social Intervention Group, Columbia University
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Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Co-Director, Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network and Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
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Professor of Population Health Science, University of Dundee
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Associate professor and Co-Director, Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate Professor of Psychology, Indiana University
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Professor of Emergency Medicine and Community Health Sciences, Boston University
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Professor of Sociology, Suffolk University
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Professor of Law and Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis
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Medicinal Chemist, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco
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Johns Hopkins University
