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The number of opioid deaths in D.C. jumped 12 percent to 518 last year, the fifth consecutive year of increases since fentanyl became the predominant drug in overdoses.
With more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths in the United States in one year, communities need more than 'just say no' drug prevention education and abstinence-only addiction treatment to save lives, an expert has warned.
This week on Century of Lies: Oregon’s Measure 110: What the Research Shows – pt 2.
We need to reach beyond the US’s restrictive, hard-to-access, unaffordable, one-size-fits-all drug treatment approach.
On this edition of Free Culture Radio: The Harm Reduction Gap. Host Doug McVay in conversation with Sheila Vakharia, PhD, MSW, Deputy Director of the Department of Research and Academic Engagement at the Drug Policy Alliance and author of a new book to be released in February 2024 entitled The Harm Reduction Gap: Helping Individuals Left Behind by Conventional Drug Prevention