USA. Even with private insurance, black overdose patients are half as likely as whites to get addiction treatment, Penn study finds Opioid overdose patients with private insurance are rarely connected to addiction treatment after visiting the emerg…

Assessment of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Medication to Treat Opioid Use Disorder Among Pregnant Women in Massachusetts. Schiff DM, Nielsen T, Hoeppner BB, et al.  JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(5):e205734. Published 2020 May 1. doi:1…

No Time Like The Present: The BASIS Special Series on Race and Addiction We are privileged to have The BASIS as a worldwide platform for our thoughts and to highlight important research that clarifies the devastating impacts of racism. Because ther…

Racism and Policing Are Global Problems. Drug Control is a Vehicle. There is now substantial evidence that the war on drugs has disproportionately targeted Black and Brown communities in the US, resulting in profound racial injustice. For…

ETHNISCHES PROFILING IN EUROPA: WAS VERSTEHT MAN UNTER ETHNISCHEM PROFILING?  Unter ethnischem Profiling sind selektive ordnungsbehördliche Kontrollen zu verstehen, die aufgrund von Kriterien wie Ethnizität, Rasse, Religion und nationaler Herk…

Singapur. Malaysian man sentenced to death in Singapore via Zoom call Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old Malaysian, received the sentence for his role in a 2011 heroin transaction. (Al Jazeera, Katar, 20.05.2020) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/0…