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Researchers believe that lack of economic opportunity drives an increase in opioid use among local residents.

Opioid use disorder is fueling a rise in youth hepatitis C cases and a stabilization of a long decline in HIV among people who use drugs.

The programs lower the transmission of HIV and hepatitis C, reduce overdoses and result in these other benefits.

The drug can quickly reverse opioid-driven overdoses.

Judge’s ruling may pave the way for opening the nation’s first supervised overdose prevention facility.

Two new interactive (and free!) databases offer maps, policies and much more, courtesy of amfAR.

The drug can quickly reverse an opioid overdose and prevent death.

Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Infectious Disease Elimination Act, effective statewide July 1. [VIDEO]

The spray requires no medical training.

The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle saw many important studies that are advancing the fight against HIV.

People with HIV have high rates of chronic pain as well as opioid usage.

That’s according to an analysis of HIV-positive people released from jail or prison in Connecticut.

More than 72,300 Americans died last year as a result of a drug overdose.

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

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

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