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...
The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color has been impossible to ignore, from higher hospitalization and mortality rates to lower vaccination rates. Many accounts blame disparities in underlying health conditions among people of color and a...