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UPDATED: What’s the deal with Overdose Prevention Sites

WebOverdose prevention sites typically provide additional services such as fentanyl test strips, healthcare services, counseling, and referrals to health and social services, including drug treatment, as part of an integrated care model. The first legal supervised consumption space opened in Berne, Switzerland in 1986 as a strategy to …

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Pharmacist and Prescriber Perceptions on Buprenorphine …

WebPharmacist and Prescriber Perceptions on Buprenorphine Prescribing and Dispensing. By: Henry Larweh and Hridika Shah. Buprenorphine is an evidence-based medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) that, until December 2022, could only be prescribed by obtaining a DATA waiver, also known as the X-waiver.Until its removal, the X-waiver was considered …

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Pregnant People and Opioid Use: A Stigmatized Population in Crisis

WebAs of 2021, approximately three quarters of fatal opioid overdoses occur among people aged 25 to 54, including those of typical reproductive age. Simultaneous with high usage trends in the United States, approximately one in five pregnant people will fill an opioid prescription. In a 2019 study, approximately 7% of pregnant people surveyed

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Harm Reduction 101: How States Can Use Opioid Settlement …

WebConceptually, harm reduction consists of programs, policies, and practices that decrease the associated risks of activities. Everyday examples of harm reduction strategies include seat belts and bike helmets. In the case of drug use, the aim of harm reduction is to reduce the negative consequences from using drugs.

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Expanding Access to Methadone Treatment for Opioid Use …

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Messaging on Harm Reduction: How to Talk to Stakeholders

WebHarm reduction is a social justice movement centered on respect for people who use drugs; in part, it aims to reduce the negative consequences related to drug use, like overdose and infectious disease transmission from injection drug use, without seeking to stop drug use itself (See Harm Reduction 101). As part of their response to stark

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What do overdose survivors say about harm reduction programs

WebDecades of research has documented that harm reduction organizations are highly cost-effective, reduce the risk of HIV and HCV infection, facilitate substance use disorder treatment initiation, reduce overall health costs, and can reduce fatal overdose. Expanding support for harm reduction is one of the Core Strategies, or approved uses, of

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Background About These Principles Bloomberg Opioid Initiative

WebABOUT THE PRINCIPLES States, cities, and counties will soon be receiving funds from the opioid litigation. Substance misuse is an ongoing public health crisis in the United States; an estimated 20 million people have a substance use disorder related to alcohol or illicit drugs. Recent attention has understandably focused on the role of opioids—which have killed …

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Principles for the Use of Funds From the Opioid Litigation

WebNationally Recognized Guidance for opioid settlement funds Principles for the Use of Funds From the Opioid Litigation. Developed by a coalition of organizations across the spectrum of the substance use field including physicians, addiction medicine specialists, recovery, treatment, and harm reduction.

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Improving Treatment Access for Veterans with Opioid Use Disorder

WebFor the past two decades, the opioid epidemic in the U.S. has been a public health emergency due to the rising number of deaths by overdose (Bennett et al., 2022). Specifically, opioid overdose-related deaths increased by 41% in 2020 and 18% in 2021 (NSC, 2023). In addition, Americans who are at risk of opioid use disorder (OUD) are …

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Focus on Racial Equity

WebFocus on Racial Equity. States and localities should direct significant funds to communities affected by years of discriminatory policies and now experiencing substantial increases in overdoses. Although communities of color experience substance use disorders at similar rates as other racial groups, in recent years the rate of opioid overdose

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Data-driven decision making for opioid settlements

WebWith unprecedented funding flowing to state and local decision-makers charged with developing opioid settlement spending plans, distribution of opioid litigation funding represents a unique opportunity for communities to design and sustain locally-driven treatment and recovery infrastructure. These decision-makers often have limited data …

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Creating Tribal Partnerships to Maximize the Impact of State, …

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Three Things to Know About the SUPPORT Act Reauthorization

WebThe SUPPORT Act reauthorization presents a missed opportunity to advance major policy change that could transform the way the U.S. responds to the overdose crisis, including: Reentry Act (H.R. 2400/S.1165). This bill allows Medicaid-eligible individuals to resume receiving Medicaid benefits thirty days prior to their release from jail or prison.

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Providing Methadone in Jails and Prisons

Web1 There are many reasons for correctional facilities to provide addiction treatment to people who enter their facility with opioid use disorders.

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Reaching people where they are–using EMS to start buprenorphine

WebReaching people where they are–using EMS to start buprenorphine. January 10, 2023. Emergency medical services (EMS) are a critical first-response system in the opioid overdose crisis; EMS patient encounters involving an opioid overdose have risen in recent years. People may be particularly receptive to starting treatment after an overdose.

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Harm Reduction Vending Machines: What are they and do they …

WebInvest in infrastructure: Harm reduction vending machines are an evidence-based strategy to expand harm reduction efforts to serve diverse populations of people who use drugs. Vending machines can extend the accessible hours and reach of harm reduction services (Islam, Stern, et al., 2008; Islam, Wodak, et al., 2008).

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NACo stands up new effort to help counties

WebNACo stands up new effort to help counties. August 9, 2022. We recently spoke Ashleigh Holand, Director of the Counties Futures Lab at the National Association of Counties (NACo), the home of educational programming and original research on and for America’s counties. In this role, Ashleigh facilitates partnerships with researchers, think

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Principles for the Use of Funds From the Opioid Litigation

Web3 Background — Addiction is an ongoing public health crisis in the United States; an estimated 20 million people have a substance use disorder related to alcohol or illicit drugs.

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