Updates

The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), one of six program offices within the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) today announced the release of Guidelines for Managing Substance Withdrawal in Jails: A...

The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health (IVPB) recently posted an update of suspected overdose deaths and provisional data on ED visits for overdose. The IVPB is able to share the year-end 2022 fentanyl-positive deaths report.  ...

Opioid overdose mortality has increased over the last ten years, but disproportionately among Black persons. The authors of this study examine racial disparities in receipt of buprenorphine and naloxone after opioid use disorder (OUD) related events using Medicare...

The CDC recently released a report showing that fentanyl death rates skyrocketed 279 percent between 2016 and 2021, and communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by the rise. More Black Americans died from fentanyl overdoses than from any other drug...

Findings from the Eating, Sleeping and Consoling for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal (ESC-NOW) study show that the ESC approach is more effective than  usual care approaches for opioid-exposed infants. Eat, Sleep, Console promotes parental engagement and gives special...