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MEDIA
"CHARGING 'DEALERS' WITH HOMICIDE: EXPLAINED"
THE APPEAL, NOVEMBER 2, 2018
"OPIOID ADDICTION AND DEATH MAIL-ORDERED TO YOUR DOOR"
BBC NEWS, FEBRUARY 22, 2018
"US INVESTIGATING TREATMENT OF ADDICTED PRISONERS IN MA"
BOSTON GLOBE, MARCH 29, 2018
"THE OVERDOSE CRISIS IS SO BAD THAT SOME EXPERTS WANT TO PRESCRIBE HEROIN TO TREAT ADDICTION"
BUZZFEED NEWS, DECEMBER 6, 2018
"DRUG USERS ON PROBATION CAN BE REQUIRED TO REMAIN DRUG-FREE, COURT RULES"
CNN JULY 16, 2018
"ARE PAIN DOCTORS WRONGLY TAKING THE BLAME FOR THE OPIOID CRISIS?"
THE CRIME REPORT, DECEMBER 12, 2018
"METH HOSPITALIZATIONS SOAR 245% BUT IT'S HIDDEN BY THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC"
DAILY MAIL, NOVEMBER 28, 2018
"PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS CALL FOR RETRACTION OF BROOKINGS INSTITUTION OPIOID 'RESEARCH ROUNDUP'"
FILTER, DECEMBER 11, 2018
"THE STOP ACT WON'T STOP DRUG USE OR TREAT ADDICTION: HERE ARE FIVE INTERVENTIONS THAT WILL"
FORBES, OCTOBER 25, 2018
"HARPER'S INDEX DECEMBER 2018"
HARPER'S MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 29, 2018
"QUESTIONS SWIRL ON THE UTILITY OF CURRENT PDMP ROLE IN OPIOID CRISIS"
HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT, OCTOBER 26, 2018
"TRUMP'S LATEST IDEAS TO COMBAT THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC ARE ALSO HIS DUMBEST"
HUFFPOST, MARCH 20, 2018
"NEW 'CHURCH' WANTS TO SAVE LIVES -- BY OFFERING A SAFE PLACE TO SHOOT UP"
HUFFPOST, JANUARY 1, 2019
"OPIOID ADDICTION IS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. THE WAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT ISN'T HELPING."
NEWS @ NORTHEASTERN, JANUARY 8, 2019
"TRUMP STILL WANTS DRUG DEALERS EXECUTED—BUT WON'T PUSH TO CHANGE DEATH PENALTY LAWS"
NEWSWEEK, MARCH 19, 2018
"HOW MASSACHUSETTS DEALS WITH OPIOID ADDICTS: JAIL OR REHAB?"
NPR, OCTOBER 10, 2017
"SURGEON GENERAL WANTS NALOXONE WIDELY ON HAND. IS THIS FEASIBLE?"
NBC NEWS, APRIL 18, 2018
"THE FEDERAL AGENCY THAT FUELS THE OPIOID CRISIS"
LEO BELETSKY & JEREMIAH GOULKA
NY TIMES, SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
"IS THE U.S KNEE-DEEP IN 'EPIDEMIC' OR IS THAT JUST WISHFUL THINKING?"
NY TIMES, AUGUST 14, 2018
"YOU'RE NOT A DRUG DEALER? HERE'S WHY THE POLICE MIGHT DISAGREE"
NY TIMES, MAY 25, 2018
"MEASURING THE TOLL OF THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC IS TOUGHER THAN IT SEEMS"
PROPUBLICA, MARCH 13, 2018
"CHINA HAS PROMISED TO CRACK DOWN ON FENTANYL. HERE'S WHAT THIS COULD MEAN FOR OVERDOSE DEATHS IN THE U.S."
TIME, DECEMBER 3, 2018
"OVERDOSES ARE TREATED LIKE MURDERS MORE THAN EVER"
VICE NEWS, NOVEMBER 7, 2017
"'SEARCH FOR AND REFUSE ALL DELIVERIES.' AMID TRADE WAR, TRUMP URGES USPS CRACKDOWN ON FENTANYL TRAFFICKING FROM CHINA"
TIME, AUGUST 24, 2019
"TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO SEEK STIFFER PENALTIES AGAINST DRUG DEALERS, REDUCE OPIOID PRESCRIBING"
WASHINGTON POST, MARCH 18, 2018
"U.S. ATTORNEY INVESTIGATING MASS. PRISON OFFICIALS' TREATMENT OF INMATES WITH ADDICTIONS"
WBUR, MARCH 29, 2018
"BOSTON, CAMBRIDGE MAYORS WILL TOUR SUPERVISED INJECTION SITES IN CANADA"
WBUR, JANUARY 10, 2019
PAST EVENTS
North Carolina, March 26, 2019
ACTION ALERT!
SAHMSA NPRM "Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records"
This measure would allow protected SUD treatment data to be merged with state PDMPs at the expense of abandoning patient privacy in the midst of continued stigmatization of SUD treatment and active law enforcement surveillance of PDMPs.
Our Response
"JUDGES CAN REQUIRE DRUG USERS ON PROBATION TO REMAIN DRUG-FREE, COURT RULES"
NPR, JULY 16, 2018
"CONSIGN THE DRUG WAR TO HISTORY: WE CANNOT PROSECUTE OUR WAY OUT OF THE OPIOID CRISIS"
NY DAILY NEWS, JULY 18, 2018
"PURDUE BRASS 'MILKED' $4B FROM OPIOID ADDITION: MASS AG"
LAW360, FEBRUARY 1, 2019
"There is a real risk here that a lot of this is about political posturing and not actually redressing the harms, and that’s what I worry about.”
"COMMISSION TORN OVER SUPERVISED INJECTION SITES"
COMMONWEALTH MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 21, 2019
“You’re basing a public policy discussion around what someone said. That’s not what we’re here for.”
"ELIZABETH WARREN'S AMBITIOUS PLAN TO FIGHT THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC, EXPLAINED"
VOX, FEBRUARY 19, 2019
"We talk about this huge investment of $100 billion, and that being pie in the sky, but just the budget increase for defense spending last year was $70 billion [...] People are dropping dead by the thousands [in the opioid epidemic], and we are teetering around the edges. So it’s very frustrating.”
"USING OPIOIDS TO TREAT ADDICTION IS CONSIDERED THE GOLD STANDARD. SO WHY AREN'T MORE DOCTORS PRESCRIBING THEM?"
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 18, 2019
"In Philadelphia’s men’s prisons, a just-launched Suboxone program has been paused because the prisons’ doctors already have hit their prescribing caps.”
"JUSTICE DEPARTMENT IS TRYING TO BLOCK SAFE-INJECTION SITES"
ROLLING STONE, FEBRUARY 7, 2019
"This isn’t black and white. Bottom line is that the federal government is CHOOSING to enter into this battle, just as it’s paying lip service to public health.”