Characteristics of persons who inject drugs and who witness opioid overdoses in Vietnam: a cross-sectional analysis to inform future overdose prevention programs N.A. Blackburn, K.E. Lancaster, T.V. Ha, C.A. Latkin, W.C. Mi…

“This is a time when people are vulnerable, potentially frightened by this event that’s just occurred and amenable to advice, referral and treatment recommendations,” says Julie Donohue, associate professor of health policy an…

Trends in Deaths Involving Heroin and Synthetic Opioids Excluding Methadone, and Law Enforcement Drug Product Reports, by Census Region — United States, 2006–2015 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekl…

The first governmental account of nationwide drug deaths in 2016 shows overdose deaths growing even faster than previously thought. Drug overdoses killed roughly 64,000 people in the United States last year, according to the first governmental acco…

Drug-related deaths in Scotland have reached the highest figure ever recorded, and the rate of such deaths may now be the highest in the EU. This highlights the urgent need for harm reduction measures, such as the establishing of a safe drug consump…

This report from the second annual Overdose Action Exchange captures the ideas and actions recommended by a range of participants as being necessary to reduce the unprecedented rise in overdose deaths seen over the past two years. The report contain…