BHN Winter 2020 Issue

• January 1st, 2020
• addiction treatment, behavioral health, community outreach, medication-assisted treatment, opioid epidemic, overdose prevention, public health policy, substance use disorder
• 2345    0

"Addressing the Nation's Opioid Epidemic"   Articles in This...

Supervised Injection Facilities: A Logical Progression in Harm Reduction or a Bridge Too Far?

• By: Ashley Brody, MPA, CPRP Search for Change, Inc.
• April 1st, 2018
• drug-related crime reduction, harm reduction, infectious disease prevention, opioid epidemic, overdose prevention, public health policy, substance use treatment, supervised injection facilities
• 1549    0

The scourge of opiate abuse continues to rage unabated. It claimed 42,000 lives in 2016, more than in any previous year (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018). That’s 115 human lives per day. Five of our brothers and sisters are lost each hour. One of our parents, spouses, sons or...

Harm Reduction: Theory and Practice

• By: Lloyd I. Sederer, MD
• April 1st, 2018
• addiction treatment, criminal justice diversion, harm reduction, Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), opioid epidemic, overdose prevention, substance use disorders
• 2209    0

If we want to reduce the harm that derives from psychoactive substances, we need to begin by ending two ineffective, enduring and hugely expensive policies and practices in this country. Then we can get to true harm reduction. The first are strategies that seek to control access to and...

BHN Fall(2) 2017 Issue

• October 1st, 2017
• addiction treatment, behavioral health services, harm reduction, medication-assisted treatment, opioid epidemic, overdose prevention, public health response, substance use disorders
• 2091    0

"Addressing the Nation’s Opioid Epidemic”   Articles in This...