Drug War Tactics Won’t Stop Xylazine Deaths
Instead, harm reduction advocates are calling for strategy to create a safer supply of currently criminalized drugs.
Instead, harm reduction advocates are calling for strategy to create a safer supply of currently criminalized drugs.
Evidence suggests that people who undergo involuntary treatment for opioid use disorder are at greater risk of dying than those who don’t.
A team of researchers led by Davida M. Schiff, MD, director of Perinatal and Family Based Substance Use Disorders Care at Massachusetts General Hospital, conducted…
Uncoupling of OUD treatment decisions in the perinatal period from mandated CPS reporting at time of delivery is essential. The primary focus for families affected…
Decriminalizing drug paraphernalia is one step Maryland can take toward ending policies that have failed to curb an epidemic of drug-related deaths, says Jessie Dunleavy,…
If the goal of fentanyl laws is to prevent overdose and poisoning deaths, they should fund testing, treatment and information. Harsher criminal punishment only will…
Involuntary treatment might be worth it if it worked — but evidence strongly suggests that it doesn’t.
Involuntary treatment might be worth it if it worked — but evidence strongly suggests that it doesn’t.
Involuntary treatment might be worth it if it worked — but evidence strongly suggests that it doesn’t.
It could help drug policy.
Despite determining that Diamond Ranch Academy failed to take Taylor Goodridge to a hospital when she fell ill, state officials allowed the school to resume…