During the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Opioid Epidemic Continues
Between the opioid crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, America now suffers from a surplus of needless, untimely deaths.
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Read more: Q&A with Adam Lustig, Trust for America’s Health, on Laws to Promote Cost-Savings in States Q&A with Adam Lustig, Trust for America’s Health, on Laws to Promote Cost-Savings in States
By The Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research This week, the Center for Public Health Law Research and Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) published the first two of 13 comprehensive datasets on laws that can support cost-savings for states and promote health and well-being. Researchers from Center used the scientific policy surveillance process…
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Read more: Not Another Scott County? Not Another Scott County?
By Emily Beukema, Aila Hoss, and Nicolas Terry In November 2014, Scott County, Indiana was the site of a now infamous HIV outbreak linked to intravenous drug use. Syringe service programs (SSP) would not only have curbed that outbreak but also could have prevented it from occurring in the first place. Later analysis found that…
