Substance Use Disorder Prevention

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  Commentary

  Treating Supervised Drug Consumption Sites Like Cannabis

  Oct 22, 2021

  Some communities hard hit by the opioid crisis are interested in opening supervised consumption sites—places where people who use drugs can do so under supervision of trained staff. What could be done to make it easier to pilot and evaluate these sites in the United States?

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  Commentary

  A New and More Dangerous Drug Market Requires a New Approach

  Mar 16, 2022

  Synthetic opioids are likely to increasingly reach illegal drug markets. Failure to recognize and respond to how rapidly drug markets have changed with the arrival of illegally manufactured synthetic opioids will continue to put many at risk of exposure to fentanyl, endangering the lives of hundreds of thousands more Americans for years to come.