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Posted 10/3/2019 (updated 3/25/2024)
Findings suggest that many North Carolina LEOs understand the public health benefits of syringe access programs and may be inclined to support syringe decriminalization legislation.
Posted 11/19/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Telehealth offers the potential for increasing access and availability to addressing opioid overdose, and laws governing telehealth have implications for their utilization.
Posted 11/19/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
This document provides scientific, evidence-based recommendations to protect yourself from exposure.
Posted 11/19/2019 (updated 3/25/2024)
Although typically delivered via intramuscular or intravenous injection, naloxone may be delivered via intranasal spray device.
Posted 11/21/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
This guide provides a brief overview on identifying potential patients and introducing them to the program, as well as an overview of the medical-management counseling process.
Posted 11/21/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
This is a briefing for law enforcement personnel around the world on how to incorporate, support, and create space for approaches that aim to increase public safety and health, reduce harm to people who use drugs, and provide law enforcement alternatives to common punitive models.
Posted 11/21/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
The goal of this booklet is to get us all to take the issue of overamping seriously and to bring attention to it as much as other kinds of “overdoses,” and also to recognize all the smart things people already do to keep themselves and their friends safe.
Posted 11/21/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
This report was developed as part of an initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office on Women’s Health (OWH) to examine prevention, treatment, and recovery issues for women who misuse opioids, have opioid use disorders (OUDs), and/or overdose on opioids.
Posted 11/21/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Address the myths and facts about discriminatory hiring practices and criminal background check.
Posted 11/21/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Opioid overdose is reversible through the timely administration of naloxone, which has been used by emergency medical services for decades.