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Posted 11/27/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
This guide is aimed at people who inject drugs to help reduce some of the problems caused by injecting.
Posted 12/4/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
To focus national and local prevention efforts on eliminating HIV, CDC analyzed surveillance, pharmacy, and other data to determine the status of these strategies (diagnose, treat, and prevent HIV infections) at the national and state levels.
Posted 12/30/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
This study explores the use of multiple stimulants and sexual risk behaviors among individuals of different races and sexual identities in rural North Carolina.
Posted 12/30/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Preventing Deaths, Reducing Risk to Counties and States
Posted 1/24/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The HIV Testing Sites & Care Services Locator is a first-of-its-kind, location-based search tool that allows you to search for testing services, housing providers, health centers and other service providers near your current location.
Posted 1/28/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The following guidelines introduce what has been learned from the sheriffs’ and jail administrators’ innovative use of MAT, describing the essential components of these programs and analyzing the latest research on how these programs are best implemented, as well as the medications approved for opioid use disorders.
Posted 6/12/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America is an initiative launched by the federal government with the aim of addressing the HIV epidemic in the United States. The initiative was announced by President Trump during the State of the Union address in February 2019 and aims to reduce new HIV infections by 75% in five years and by 90% in ten years by focusing first on the hardest hit areas of the country.
Posted 6/16/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The most effective therapy for people with opioid use disorder involves the use of Food and Drug Administration-approved medications—methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone. Despite evidence that this approach, known as medications for opioid use disorder, reduces relapse and saves lives, the vast majority of jails and prisons do not offer this treatment.
Posted 6/26/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This report provides recommendations for actions that state and local leaders can take immediately to increase evidence-based practices, decrease arbitrary determinations, and prevent overdose deaths. The report also provides concrete steps that will, in the longterm, help dismantle a siloed system of unequal access and disparities and move towards an integrated system that promotes restorative justice, where people and families are treated with dignity, and where addiction is treated as a health and wellness matter rather than one of moral failing or criminality.
Posted 6/30/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Representing 25 years of empirical study on addiction, pharmacology, behavioral health, and criminal justice, these Standards are the foundation upon which all adult drug courts must operate.