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Syringe Distribution Programs Can Improve Public Health During the Opioid Overdose Crisis


Robert Nickelsberg
Overview
Over the past decade, attempts to address the overdose crisis in the U.S. have resulted in more restrictive opioid prescribing policies which, because they have reduced the overall availability of prescription opioids, have inadvertently led to a surge in the use of illicit drugs such as heroin.
Because these illicit opioids are often injected, they’re associated with higher rates of overdose than prescription painkillers, and, when unsterile injection equipment is used or shared, people are at risk of getting a serious infection or transmitting disease.
1 As of March 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that 44 states; Washington, D.C.; one tribal nation; and one territory were experiencing or at risk of an acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) or HIV outbreak due to injection drug use. ....

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The Day - Philadelphia may be on the way to a record for fatal drug overdoses in 2020, another COVID-19 consequence


Published December 14. 2020 8:11AM 
Aubrey Whelan
The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
PHILADELPHIA – Fatal overdoses in Philadelphia rose through the first six months of 2020, and health officials now fear that the city is on track to surpass the death toll from 2017, the worst year for fatal overdoses on record.
In addition, the city’s overdose crisis is undergoing an alarming demographic shift.
In the first quarter of the year, white residents as they have been for some time were most likely to die of overdoses in Philadelphia. But between April and June, Black Philadelphians’ share of the city’s fatal overdoses nearly doubled, surpassing that of white Philadelphians. ....

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