Against American Public Health Exceptionalism
Americans are no doubt conditioned to expect spectacular failure in the face of public health crises.
Overdose
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Read more: How Supervised Injection Sites Can Help Address the Overdose Crisis How Supervised Injection Sites Can Help Address the Overdose Crisis
To save lives and improve individual and community outcomes, supervised injection sites should be part of the response to the opioid epidemic.
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Read more: Advancing a Public Health-Promoting National Opioid Policy Advancing a Public Health-Promoting National Opioid Policy
An American public health and safety-promoting drug policy agenda grounded in sound science is long overdue.
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Read more: Bold Steps Needed to Correct Course in US Drug Policies Bold Steps Needed to Correct Course in US Drug Policies
Moving the United States beyond the opioid overdose crisis and pernicious inequities in law enforcement requires bold, innovative solutions.
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Read more: New Data on Drug Overdose Law New Data on Drug Overdose Law
By Scott Burris Working with Corey Davis of the Network for Public Health Law, PHLR has completed and posted updated longitudinal datasets of state laws authorizing naloxone distribution and creating “Good Samaritan” immunity for callers reporting a drug overdose to 911. Take a look at www.lawatlas.org. On the theory that an image beats a few…
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Read more: Another Legislative Win for Opioid Death Prevention Another Legislative Win for Opioid Death Prevention
By Scott Burris The rising public and legislative awareness of opioid overdose has been a case study in the twists and turns of culture, risk perception and the role of evidence in policy making. An interesting case study, which does not mean I understand what happened or why. I first got involved in overdose through…
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Read more: When Prescribing Gets in the Way When Prescribing Gets in the Way
By Scott Burris I am not disputing the value of properly trained health professionals acting as gate-keepers to potentially dangerous drugs. And I am not taking on here the question of which health care professionals should be allowed to prescribe which drugs, though that is an important question on which the states vary quite a…
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Read more: Overdose Prevention Marches On Overdose Prevention Marches On
By Scott Burris Training lay people to reverse opiate overdose with naloxone continues to gain steam in the evidence base, popular media and legislatures. Here’s a great blog post the covers recent developments and links to a new film. The Open Society Foundations and a group of harm reduction groups have launched a new website to…
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Read more: Dave Purchase and Naloxone, Life Savers Dave Purchase and Naloxone, Life Savers
By Scott Burris Start with the sad news of the week. Dave Purchase died, aged 73. Dave was the father of needle exchange in the US, which as far as anyone can say started with Dave and a TV tray in disregard of Oregon’s drug paraphernalia law. Dave was a father figure to a whole…
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Read more: Researchers to Lawmakers: Naloxone Distribution to Prevent Overdose Death is Cost-Effective Researchers to Lawmakers: Naloxone Distribution to Prevent Overdose Death is Cost-Effective
By Scott Burris Phil Coffin and Sean Sullivan have published a cost-effectiveness study of interventions that equip heroin users and others to administer naloxone in the event of a witnessed opioid overdose. Naloxone is the standard antidote, and can easily be administered by lay people with a minimum amount of training. Family members and friends…