#Opioids

Opioid Overdose Deaths Are Rising Quickly in the HIV Population

In a series of reports, HIV experts lay out the gaps in plans to end the epidemic and ways to fix them.

These Florida and Maryland communities can access HIV tests, PrEP and overdose prevention via an RV and a van.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has learned difficult lessons from such outbreaks over the past five years.

A West Virginia drive-through event does exactly that—plus give free Naloxone trainings.

A $7 million grant goes to new research seeking insights to neurological and cognitive problems.

People with an opioid use disorder, in particular, had a tenfold higher risk of being diagnosed with COVID-19.

As overdose death rates have risen in this population, life expectancy has increasingly narrowed.

Infective endocarditis is a life-threatening bacterial infection of the heart valves that is associated with injection drug use.

This finding is consistent with research about younger LGB people’s substance use compared with their heterosexual counterparts.

This is one of many ways that people who use drugs can engage in harm reduction during the coronavirus pandemic.

A national survey found that primary care physicians had little interest in prescribing buprenorphine or naltrexone.

Even after federal regulators relaxed rules requiring daily clinic visits, these bad actors are still bringing patients in for monitoring.

The coronavirus pandemic has upended the usual systems governing the dispensation of medication-assisted treatment.

Buprenorphine is a treatment for people with opioid use disorder.

However, the overdose death rate resulting from synthetic opioids, especially fentanyl, rose between 2017 and 2018.

One bill would create 1,000 new residency positions for physicians going into addiction treatment medicine.