Updates

New research from Penn State University and the University of Kentucky suggests that trauma leads to high levels of intergenerational substance use among Black women, and race and gender may play a role. In the first study of its kind, the researchers examined the...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in the midst of the overdose crisis, many harm reduction workers are experiencing burnout. While there’s growing awareness of this issue for staff in many fields, like health care, people working in harm reduction and...

Nevada state lawmakers nationwide are responding to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history by pushing penalties for possessing fentanyl and other powerful lab-made opioids that are connected to about 70,000 deaths a year. Imposing longer prison sentences for...

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 was unable to update the fentanyl-positive death report this month.  ...

People living in the United States must travel significantly farther to access methadone treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) than Canadians, suggests a new study led by Washington State University researchers. Published in the journal Drug and Alcohol...