USA. When an Iowa Family Doctor Takes On the Opioid Epidemic Few primary care doctors are willing to do what Nicole Gastala has: endure the challenges of prescribing buprenorphine, a medication for opioid addiction. (The New York Times, 23.06…

Indien. Putting people at the centre of harm reduction: lessons from India  Blink, and you would miss the National Drug Dependency Treatment Centre (NDDTC) in Sunder Nagri, New Delhi. Housed in a nondescript community centre in an area known f…

USA. After Opioid Overdose, Only 30 Percent Get Medicine To Treat Addiction More than 115 Americans die every day of opioid overdose. Many more who overdose survive due to the antidote medication naloxone. But a study out Monday finds that jus…

USA. AMA: Remove barriers to opioid-use disorder treatment On Monday, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, called on his fellow AMA member physicians to work toward eliminating stigma associated with substance-use disorder and removing barriers t…

Portugal. How Portugal Is Kicking its Heroin Habit (Video) Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. Most people knew someone affected by the lethal drug. Just two decades later, the country has one of the lowest drug-related death rates i…

Principles for managing OUD related to chronic pain in the Nordic countries based on a structured assessment of current practice Johan Kakko,Charlotte Gedeon,Mikael Sandell,Henrik Grelz,Inge Birkemose,Thomas Clausen,Va…