The Bottom Line Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) reduces HIV incidence and infection by more than 90%, but it isn’t available at 1 in 3 student health services in New England — and those institutions that did offer PrEP had low prescription rates. Increasing access to...
The Bottom Line When healthcare workers gave patients with addiction pre-paid cell phones, it led to these patients engaging more frequently with the healthcare system via telehealth visits and phone encounters. For patients with addiction, consistent...
At Faster Paths, a bridge clinic for substance use disorder at Boston Medical Center, the demand for methadone treatment last year came quickly and entirely through word of mouth. “Once we started, demand skyrocketed,” says Jessica Taylor, MD, medical...
Opioid-related overdose deaths rose in Massachusetts last year by 5% to a total of 2,104—marking the first increase in the state in three years and its highest peak, topping 2016’s peak of 2,102. This increase from 2019 to 2020 occurred amid the ongoing COVID-19...
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were several HIV outbreaks happening in various locations in the United States among people who inject drugs (PWID). Studies published in 2018 and 2019 demonstrated that injection opioids, including fentanyl, and methamphetamines...