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Press Release issued on Tuesday, November 30th: MAYOR DE BLASIO ANNOUNCES NATION’S FIRST OVERDOSE PREVENTION CENTER SERVICES TO OPEN IN NEW YORK CITY Overdose Prevention Center services offer safe, clean places where people who use drugs can access clinical care and other services Health Department study: OPCs could save 130 lives a year NEW […]
Dr. Avik Chatterjee recently published “Broadening access to naloxone: Community predictors of standing order naloxone distribution in Massachusetts” in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. They found that Naloxone by standing order in Massachusetts increased, there are inequities in dispensing NSO based on ethnicity and location, more NSO is dispensed in areas where more people receive buprenorphine, […]
COBRE Pilot Project Awardee, Dr. Dahianna Lopez spoke with Dr. William Latimer on Bronxnet’s Public Health America. Dr. Dahianna Lopez, a tenure-track assistant professor at the College of Nursing at the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Lopez discusses her research on injury prevention as it relates to car crashes, bicycle, and pedestrian injuries, and drug […]
Drug Overdose Deaths, Fueled by Fentanyl, Hit Record High in U.S. Nation records more than 100,000 fatalities over 12 months for first time Wall Street Journal By Jon Kamp Julie Wernau “The U.S. recorded its highest number of drug-overdose deaths in a 12-month period, surpassing 100,000 for the first time in the shadow of the […]
We would love for you to view and share this virtual, on-demand, YouTube-hosted SciToons’ Opioids Overdose Rescue training video so that more and more people can learn about opioids, naloxone, how to recognize when someone may be overdosing on opioids, and how to provide life-saving assistance– collaboratively developed by Geoff Capraro, MD, MPH, Ana Bess […]
COBRE Investigators Dr. Brandon del Pozo, Dr. Josiah Rich and Dr. Jennifer Carroll published a manuscript in the International Journal of Drug Policy on “Reports of accidental fentanly overdose among police in the field: Toward correcting a harmful culture-bound syndrome”. “In August 2021, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore released a dramatic video allegedly depicting […]
COBRE on Opioids and Overdose at Rhode Island Hospital holds community hackathon to stimulate creative solutions to the overdose epidemic Second annual event of the Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) was virtual and finalists may move forward to apply for up to $40K in additional funding With innovation—there is hope. This was the message […]
Dr. Rich, Director of the COBRE on Opioids and Overdose co-chairs the Emerging Research on Addiction and Overdose session at the 2021 Rhode Island IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence. Prior to the COVID pandemic, the overdose epidemic in the United States was the worst public health crisis in a century. Since COVID, the epidemic […]
Threading the Needle on Drug Addiction: New York is right to Legalize Syringes by Brandon Del Pozo New York Daily News | October 20, 2021 “By legalizing the possession of syringes for everyone who injects illicit drugs, New York State has taken an important step in addressing our devastating overdose crisis. As a former NYPD […]
By: Benjamin Kail | bkail@masslive.com From: www.masslive.com “Years ago, Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone believed supervised consumption sites for drug users were a bad idea. But the 55-year-old mayor — who admitted Monday that he didn’t always handle his own brother’s and cousin’s addiction struggles with enough “humanity and decency” — now finds himself an advocate, […]
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