#Opioids

Four years ago, nearly 200 people contracted HIV in Indiana’s opioid-related outbreak.

A speedy overview of the major scientific findings presented at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam (AIDS 2018)

With such outbreaks occurring around the world, experts worry that complacency will add fuel to the fire.

The 2018 annual survey also shows prescription drug abuse is expanding and opioid-related deaths are on the rise.

Called Drug Relief, the device uses needles positioned in the ear to provide stimulation.

Compared with the general population, they have much higher rates of death from HIV, viral hepatitis and other causes during this time.

An alarmingly high proportion of the HIV population is apparently at risk of prescription pill–driven opioid addiction.

Methamphetamine overdose deaths have skyrocketed in an epicenter of the opioid crisis.

Lucemyra is approved to treat the symptoms of opioid withdrawal for 14 days.

Lawmakers advance 25 measures to fight the epidemic, with 30 more to come. But is this just “nibbling around the edges” of the crisis?

A guide from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for state and local health departments.

Bill de Blasio joins leaders in San Francisco, Philadelphia and Seattle in declaring intent to open safe injection sites.

The city has been slowly shutting down its syringe exchanges over the past two years. A recent New York Times report investigates why.

Any joy from the bills put forward this week is snuffed out by the absence of any new funding in the House and Senate legislative packages.

After the identification of 52 new HIV cases in a Massachusetts region, the state asks the CDC to help investigate.

How does the FY2018 budget affect HIV and opioid efforts? And what about Planned Parenthood and Obamacare?