Promoting Health, Safety and Equity
Promoting Health, Safety and Equity
This article reconceptualizes our understanding of the opioid epidemic and proposes six strategies that address the epidemic’s social roots.
Dr. Park presented at the National Academies of Sciences workshop. This Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief highlights the presentations and discussions that occurred at the workshop.
Led by undergraduate student Alexa Lombardi, this paper is a review of the various different types of overdose prevention tech that exist today.
A JAMA Psychiatry commentary led by Dr. Park on the importance of understanding the impact, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of overdose detection technology for overdose prevention
This study assesses the preliminary impact of Brave Technology Co-op’s overdose detection devices that have been implemented in housing, medical, social service facilities, and several private settings in North America.
Led by Dr. Park, drug checking programs operating in the US, Canada and Mexico were surveyed to understand their establishment and operations.
Latest study from Johns Hopkins University on fentanyl test strips used for detecting fentanyl in drugs.
This was a costing analysis of a new pilot drug checking service that employed an FTIR spectrometer, fentanyl test strips and confirmatory testing in Rhode Island from January 2023-May 2023.
The authors argue the high demand of FTS with poor regulations lead some manufacturers to not field test their test strips, causing the authors to urge communities to set a lot checking program in place.
Following changes to drug criminalization policies, this article re-examines the epidemiology of drug arrests among people who use drugs (PWUD) in the U.S.
This was an analysis that evaluated whether the decriminalization of drug possession in Oregon was associated with changes in fatal overdose rates, after accounting for fentanyl contaminating the unregulated drug market.
Led by doctoral student Greg Rosen, this paper explores the understudied phenomenon of solitary drug use.
Most people who use opioids would use these services if they were available.
This commentary led by Alison Lu and Claire Kim considers why supervised inhalation sites (SIS) are needed, highlights operational characteristics of four existing services, and advocates for future SIS research.
This article characterizes longitudinal patterns and demographic disparities in new HIV diagnoses attributed to injection drug use (IDU) in 2008–2020.
This article examines interview transcript with shareholders of OPC's and breaks down the multiple social, political, and legal obstacles
This article found that stigma is throughout the OPC authorization process, from planning to authorization, and elaborates on the thoughts of advocates, legislators, service providers, and researchers.
This literature review, led by Tennessee Harm Reduction, investigated the adequacy of the regularly distributed two doses of standard low-dose naloxone in reversing fentanyl overdoses and whether high-dose naloxone formulations (HDNF) are an optimal solution to this problem.
This article investigated changes in the number of people trained in naloxone administration and distribution in Maryland before, during, and after COVID-related stay-at-home orders.
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