News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Addiction"
Online ONLY Addiction: A Paradigm Shift from Problem to Patient through Policy: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Online Viewing In light of the rapidly developing COVID-19 outbreaks, Harvard University has restricted on-campus events. As a result, we will not be allowing in-person attendance at this event. Instead,…
Criminal Justice or Public Health: A Comparison of the Representation of the Crack Cocaine and Opioid Epidemics in the Media
Abstract Context: The opioid epidemic is a major US public health crisis. Its scope prompted significant public outreach, but this response triggered a series of journalistic articles comparing the opioid…
Major drugstore chains sue doctors in sprawling federal opioid case
Major drugstore chains — which face an October trial in the mammoth federal opioid litigation — have sued doctors across northeast Ohio, claiming that physicians are the real culprits in…
How Germany Averted An Opioid Crisis
HAMBURG, Germany ― In 2016, 10 times as many Americans as Germans died as a result of drug overdoses, mostly opiates. Three times as many Americans as Germans experienced opioid addiction. Even as…
Trump bets on Washington outsider to lead FDA amid political battles: The longtime cancer researcher will have a large role in Trump's agenda on vaping, drug prices and opioids.
President Donald Trump is betting on a Washington outsider to navigate a series of hot-button health care issues at the center of his 2020 campaign: a vaping crisis, an ambitious plan…
Arizona Signals Misgivings With Purdue Pharma Settlement In Possible Sign Of Troubled Waters Ahead
KHN Morning Briefing: Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Arizona was one of 24 states and and hundreds of local governments that agreed to settle with the maker…
Studying implications of policy and law for treatment of substance use disorders
From the article: CARLISLE, Pa. — People who suffer from substance use disorder need effective treatments, however, 90 percent of those who need treatment do not receive it. One Penn State…
Public Health Approaches to the Opioid Crisis: Overcoming Obstacles to Community-Driven Solutions
Description The Massachusetts Department of Public Health estimates that in 2018 alone, approximately 2,000 people died in the Commonwealth from opioid-related overdoses. The overwhelming majority of those who died of overdoses that…
Regulatory Pathways to Promote Treatment for Substance Use Disorder or Other Under-Treated Condition
From the abstract: This commentary provides a legal analysis of the extent to which changes proposed by scholars to promote care for substance use disorder or other under-treated illnesses throughrisk…
Health Law Workshop: Craig Konnoth
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Medical Civil Rights" About the Presenter Craig Konnoth is Associate Professor of Law at Colorado Law. His work lies at the intersection of health law and…
The US Opioid Epidemic: Where Do We Go from Here?: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Description The US has struggled with an epidemic of prescription opioid overuse and abuse, which has contributed to an uptick in illegal drug use and affected communities across the country.…
Penn State forms addiction legal resources team at Dickinson Law
From the article: CARLISLE, Pa. — With the number of opioid overdose deaths continuing to rise in Pennsylvania, a group of Penn State Dickinson Law students and faculty are becoming…
Diseases of Despair: The Role of Policy and Law
Description Anne Case and Angus Deaton shocked the world with their 2015 report that noted an increase in all-cause mortality among middle-aged white non-Hispanic men and women in the United States.…
Addiction, Neuroscience, and the Criminal Law: Commonwealth vs. Julie Eldred
Description Is addiction a disease? And does it matter for the criminal law? The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court now faces these questions in the potentially landmark case, Commonwealth vs. Julie…
Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review
Couldn't join us? Check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #healthlawpreview2018 and some of our speakers' slide presentations below! Description The Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review…
Health Law Workshop: Leo Beletsky
Presentation Download the presentation: "America’s Favorite Antidote: Murder-By-Overdose in the Age of the Opioid Epidemic" About the Presenter Leo Beletsky is Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences…
Opiate Regulation Policies: Balancing Pain and Addiction
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the slide presentations below! Description The current opiate epidemic has spurred long-overdue scrutiny on the pharmaceutical production and distribution of opiate…
edX Course: The Opioid Crisis in America, Harvard University
About this course Opioids are a class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin as well as powerful pain relievers, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, fentanyl and many…
Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review
Couldn't make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers' slides as well as the Health Affairs blog symposium! Description The Fifth Annual Health Law Year in…
What’s Confusing Us About Mental Health Parity
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) has been law since 2008. MHPAEA provided that health plans could not limit mental health or substance use disorder benefits in a…
Half A Life: Legal and Policy Implications of Releasing Youth Incarcerated for Murder
Couldn't attend the event? Check out the speakers' slide presentations below! Description Youth convicted of murder ordinarily serve decades in prison before they complete a sentence or are paroled.…
Health Care after the Election
Looking for more on this topic now that the election has been decided? Check out our 5th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review on January 23, 2017. At this full-day event,…
Workshop on Pretrial Justice: What Works and Why
In September 2016, the Federal Judicial Center hosted a workshop for federal judges and law enforcement officials on issues relating to pretrial diversionary courts, exploring the question of "What Works and…
Harvard Medical School’s 2016 Bioethics Conference: Social Justice and Ethics Committees in Health Care: Core to our Mission or None of our Business?
Couldn't make it to the conference? Join the conversation on Twitter using #HMSABC! Description This multidisciplinary program was co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and…
Fourth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review
Couldn't attend in person? Learn more about the event: Learn more about the presentations - check out select speakers' slides below! Check out the collaborative blog series on the…
Scholars Discuss Role of Neuroscience in Youth Criminal Justice: Summary of Project on Law & Applied Neuroscience Panel on the Neuroscience of Teen Sentencing
Check out the Harvard Crimson's summary of our first event of the year, "From Trouble Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and the Law." This event…
From Troubled Teens to Tsarnaev: Promises and Perils of Adolescent Neuroscience and Law
Read the Harvard Crimson's summary of the event! Description The neuroscience of adolescent brain development has had increasing impact on American jurisprudence. The U.S. Supreme Court relied on…
The Policeman at the Elbow: The Neuroscience of Addiction, Self-Control, and Criminal Responsibility
Couldn't join us? Watch the full event online! Do criminal penalties have any deterrent effect on drug addicts - people who already are willing to throw away their jobs,…
A Dialogue on Agency, Responsibility, and the Brain: with Stephen Morse
Couldn't join us? Watch the full event online! Professor Stephen J. Morse, JD, PhD, former MacArthur Foundation Law & Neuroscience Project, discussed how – or whether – new knowledge…
Senior Fellow for Law & Neuroscience Amanda Pustilnik Guest Lecturing in HLS Seminar
As part of her work with the Petrie-Flom Center and Center for Law Brain and Behavior at MGH's Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, Senior Fellow Amanda C. Pustilnik…
Houston doctor sued for trading prescriptions for sex
[...] Legal experts who specialize in medical ethics said the allegations and actions captured on film were "egregious." Medical standards prohibit doctors from engaging in sexual relationships with patients. "This seems…
California Counties Sue 5 Narcotics Makers
Two counties in California — Orange and Santa Clara — are suing five major drug companies, accusing them of causing the growing prescription drug epidemic across the country. The complaint,…
Facilitating Offender Re-entry to Reduce Recidivism: Federal Judicial Center Workshop
This Federal Judicial Center (FJC) workshop focused on facilitating offender re-entry to reduce recidivism, a major priority for Attorney General Eric Holder in his review of federal sentencing and corrections…