Background Fentanyl and non-pharmaceutical fentanyls (NPFs) have been responsible for
numerous outbreaks of overdoses all over the United States since the 1970s. However …

Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Methods The Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM), a Canadian
Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)–funded research network composed of four regional …

Objectives. To test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets
by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of …

Amid worsening opioid overdose death rates, the nation continues to face a persistent
addiction treatment gap limiting access to quality care for opioid use disorder (OUD). Three …

Objective To evaluate the impact of state supported overdose education and nasal naloxone
distribution (OEND) programs on rates of opioid related death from overdose and acute care …

Policy Points This article reconceptualizes our understanding of the opioid epidemic and
proposes six strategies that address the epidemic's social roots. In order to successfully …

Chinese translation Background: Among former prisoners, a high rate of death has been
documented in the early postrelease period, particularly from drug-related causes. Little is …

Importance To date, extended-release naltrexone hydrochloride has not previously been
compared directly with opioid medication treatment (OMT), currently the most commonly …

Objectives. We examined the association between the expansion of methadone and
buprenorphine treatment and the prevalence of heroin overdose deaths in Baltimore …