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Posted 11/19/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
This document provides scientific, evidence-based recommendations to protect yourself from exposure.
Posted 11/21/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Address the myths and facts about discriminatory hiring practices and criminal background check.
Posted 11/27/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Negative language and stigma regarding substance use disorder and addiction have shown to be a key barrier to seeking and receiving treatment for people who use drugs.
Posted 12/30/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Reports between 1991 and 1997 found clean needle programs reduce HIV transmission, and none found that clean needle programs caused rates of drug use to increase.
Posted 12/30/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Office of Rural Health Policy uses two methods to determine geographic eligibility for its grant programs.
Posted 5/12/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Corrections-Based Responses to the Opioid Epidemic: Lessons from New York State’s Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Program focuses on the efforts of NYS to implement an overdose education and naloxone distribution program that teaches all soon-to-be released people in state correctional facilities—as well as their families and corrections staff—about the risks of opioid use, trains them in the use of naloxone, and offers it to them free of charge at release.
Posted 6/30/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This Clinical Guide provides comprehensive, national guidance for optimal management of pregnant and parenting women with opioid use disorder and their infants. The Clinical Guide helps healthcare professionals and patients determine the most clinically appropriate action for a particular situation and informs individualized treatment decisions.
Posted 7/13/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Facts About Buprenorphine for Treatment of Opioid Addiction is available in many languages, including Spanish.
Posted 8/11/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Sonoran Prevention Works is an advocate for people in Arizona affected by drug use. Spanish language resources from Ssamaritan PAWZ are included.
Posted 8/19/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
Have you ever felt too uncomfortable or weird (not in a nice way) after taking stims? You could have been “overamping.” Stimulants like crack/cocaine and meth can lead to side effects that are unwanted and uncomfortable or potentially dangerous. Knowing what it is and what to do can help you be prepared if it happens.
Overamping happens when the effects of a stimulant become overwhelming, distressing, and/or dangerous.Overamping is specific to “overdosing” on stims like crack, cocaine, or meth. Using the word “overamping” helps to differentiate from an opioid overdose since they are different in how it happens, how it appears, and how to respond.