The Bottom Line Offering medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) to treat people with opioid addiction in prisons and jails leads to a decrease in overdose deaths. Context The most recent overdose death data from 2021 shows that more than 100,000 people died that...
An estimated 107,500 individuals lost their lives to a drug overdose between July 2021 and July 2022, with more than 81,000 of those deaths attributed to opioids and, in particular, fentanyl. To better understand the crisis and put forth suggested policies to reduce...
Men have historically used substances more than women, and so, existing addiction services and policies are more often designed with men in mind or take a gender-neutral approach. However, because women face unique concerns when it comes to substance use disorder...
As of January 12, Mayor Michelle Wu and the City of Boston proclaimed that all tents and encampments in Newmarket Square—which has come to be known as “Mass and Cass,” identifying the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard—must come...
Filing a petition to commit his father involuntarily to addiction treatment in a prison was the hardest thing Tyshaun Perryman, CARC, has ever had to do. But at the time, he felt it was necessary because the situation had grown out of control. In Massachusetts,...