The effects of message framing on US police chiefs' support for interventions for opioid use disorder: a randomized survey experiment.  Del Pozo B, Rouhani S, Bailey A, Clark MH, Martins KF, Ahmed FZ, Atkins D, Andraka-Christou B.  Healt…

USA. Database Shows How States Have (or Haven’t) Used Opioid Settlement Cash A new database tracking how jurisdictions across the country are allocating opioid settlement funds shows that while treatment and prevention were heavily prioritized, mos…

USA. Fact Sheet: Why Overdose Deaths Are Decreasing Overdose deaths in the United States dropped by nearly 17% between July 2023 and July 2024. However, over 93,000 people died of drug overdose in that period, more than the number of people who die…

UNODC. World Drug Report - SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST An estimated 60 million people used opioids in 2022, representing 1.2 per cent of the global population. Half of those were in South Asia and South-West Asia. Of those using opioids in 2022, an…

USA. The Opioid Industryʼs Legacy: A Generation of Prescribed Suffering The opioid industry’s brilliant and multifaceted campaign to increase opioid prescribing has been the subject of books, documentary films, congressional investigations, and sta…

Opioid Use Disorder Among Adults Reporting Prescription Opioid Use With or Without Misuse in the United States.  Han B, Jones CM, Einstein EB, Dowell D, Compton WM. Prescription  J Clin Psychiatry. 2024 Jul 15;85(3):24m15258. doi: 10.408…