amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, released an issue brief on how supervised consumption services (SCS) — a public health intervention that provide a hygienic space for people to use illicit drugs under the supervision…
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, has launched an Opioid & Health Indicators database to be used as a tool that can provide a window into the opioid epidemic unfolding across the United States. The free…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $70 million in grant funding to address the nation’s opioid crisis. The funding will be made available through the following three grants: Medication-Assisted Treatment and Prescription…
In a recent blog, Richard Wolitski, Ph.D., Director, Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, U.S Department of Health and Human Services, explored the relationship between injection drug use in the nation’s opioid epidemic, increases in…
In a new approach to combat rising heroin and HIV rates, Las Vegas has implemented vending machines of clean needles. The syringe exchange vending machines, a first in the United States, aren’t open to just…
Addictive Behaviors is now accepting submissions for a special issue, Prevention and Treatment of Opioid Overdose and Opioid-Use Disorders. Papers may include epidemiological, laboratory-based, or community-based research on prevention and/or treatment of opioid overdose, misuse…
West Virginia is in the midst of an unprecedented heroin and opioid epidemic that is disrupting the lives of not only individuals and families, but also entire communities and regions. A recent white paper developed by the…
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is accepting applications for the Targeted Capacity Expansion-HIV Program: Substance Use Disorder Treatment for Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations at High Risk for HIV/AIDS totaling up to $142.9…
By Samantha Lee, PharmD, DABAT, Pharmacist, and Lauren Bul, MPH, Poison Center Educator, Minnesota Poison Control Center Did you know that drug poisoning is now the leading cause of injury death in the U.S.? National Poison Prevention Week…
The Winter 2017 issue of NACCHO Exchange, “On the Frontlines: Local Public Health versus America’s Opioid Epidemic,” is now available for free download in the NACCHO Bookstore. Opioid addiction and misuse have affected inner city, suburban, and rural communities,…