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Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Do Overdose Prevention Centers Increase Crime in Communities?

At a fundamental level, an overdose prevention center is exactly what it sounds like: a place designed to reduce drug overdose, and specifically reduce fatalities associated with drug overdose....
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Thursday, October 5, 2023

The Opioid Crisis in Georgia

Pinnacle Treatment Centers owns and operates seven treatment facilities to help communities and families address the opioid crisis in the state of Georgia. To find a location near you,...
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Monday, June 19, 2023

The Opioid Crisis in the United States: Update on Settlements with Opioid Manufacturers, Distributors, and Retailers

The opioid crisis in the U.S. is over twenty years old. It began in the late 1990s and has changed several times. The first wave of the crisis was...
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Thursday, May 18, 2023

Unintended Consequences: Opioid Crisis Led to Prescription Monitoring, But Did It Help?

The overdose crisis in the United States – also called the opioid crisis – began in the late 1990s. Since then, over a million people have lost their lives...
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Thursday, May 11, 2023

Does Increasing Access to Buprenorphine Increase Risk of Overdose?

Evidence shows that buprenorphine treatment in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs improves outcomes for people with opioid use disorder (OUD). A recent study published in the Journal of the American...
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Thursday, May 4, 2023

National Harm Reduction Research Effort Could Reduce Overdose Deaths

In the United States, the drug overdose crisis is almost two and a half decades old. Also known as the opioid crisis, most experts place the beginning of this...
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Friday, April 21, 2023

Emerging National Security Threat: Xylazine Laced With Fentanyl Exacerbates Opioid Crisis

In November 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wrote a letter to stakeholders to describe a new drug that’s causing significant health risks in the U.S. The letter...
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Monday, April 10, 2023

Promising New Heroin Overdose Treatment Using Antibodies

Treatment for people with substance use disorder (SUD) has changed dramatically over the past fifty years. The same is true for people who experienced heroin or opioid overdose. In...
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Thursday, March 30, 2023

Finding LGBTQ Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Fatal drug overdoses in the U.S. have more than quintupled since 1999. Data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows that in 1999, a total of 16,849 people...
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Monday, March 27, 2023

The Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment (MAT) Act: Will We Keep COVID-Era Changes?

In the late spring of 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic – before the rollout of the vaccines – the federal government, along with community, municipal, and...
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