Latest Addiction Medicine News
For people who rely on medications to treat opioid use disorders, the pandemic can disrupt access to medications.
- March 27, 2022Source: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
John Oliver discusses why overdoses in the U.S. have been on the rise and what we should, and shouldn’t, be doing to prevent them; plus, a disastrous royal tour; Ketanji Brown Jackson faces inane questions from the GOP; the Nenana Ice Classic.
- March 16, 2022Source: The Current - CBC Radio
Discusses sociological perspectives on addiction, and the implications of how we approach it on the treatment and agency of people who use drugs.
- March 16, 2022Source: STAT News
As currently designed, U.S. addiction treatment systems are costing lives every day. Structured to simultaneously provide care for people with substance use disorders while surveilling, criminalizing, and stigmatizing these disorders and the people who have them, they are cumbersome, inflexible, and unprepared for the next emergency.
- March 09, 2022Source: The Globe & Mail
A panel, struck to examine the deaths of thousands of British Columbians from toxic illicit drugs, is recommending the province rapidly expand access to a safer drug supply and develop a governance framework with clear goals and targets to hold health authorities accountable...
- February 15, 2022Source: STAT
A patient who has taught me a lot about how to best care for people who use drugs floored me one afternoon while she was in the clinic when I asked her thoughts on getting vaccinated against Covid-19.
- February 10, 2022Source: The Daily Beast
Even after Team Biden said no funds would pay for pipes in a harm reduction program, Fox News continued blasting the White House over the issue...
- February 09, 2022Source: The Independent (UK)
A federal programme to combat disease and prevent deaths among drug users has launched a moral panic across right-wing media, parroting bad-faith attacks against a demonstrably effective public health approach against an overdose crisis.
- January 31, 2022Source: Connecticut Health I-Team
During the ongoing battle with COVID-19, there seems to be less attention being paid to opioid addiction, advocates say. But now these two events put opioids and opioid use disorder back in the spotlight. Deaths from opioid overdose in Connecticut have increased nearly 40% over the past three years, hitting 1,356 through the first 11 months of in 2021 and, police say, the state is flooded with ever-more-powerful synthetic opioids.
- January 12, 2022Source: Truthout
Apair of legally sanctioned overdose prevention centers — in which people can use illicit drugs under medical supervision — began taking clients in New York City in late November, potentially opening the door for similar facilities in other cities. The announcement has been a rare bright spot in the increasingly terrifying media coverage of the overdose crisis. The prevention centers are a hopeful step toward addressing the crisis, but they are not a panacea. Even if more centers are established beyond New York, experts warn that overdose prevention centers alone cannot stem the staggering tide of death....