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A new report from Vital Strategies and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that a program in southeast Michigan improved hospitals’ ability to care for opioid use disorder patients in their emergency departments.

Statement from Ruxana Jina, Director of the Data Impact Program, Vital Strategies, on the recently released report, “Analysis of deaths due to gender-based violence: An autopsy-based cross-sectional study from Mumbai.”

People who use drugs or alcohol face discrimination in employment, health and housing. A new portal, Legal Help for People Who Use(d) Drugs, is helping fight this.

During the inaugural Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit in London, five cities were recognized for their achievements in preventing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries.

The community-based projects will focus on advancing racial equity and harm reduction throughout the state of New Jersey and will address racial harms caused by punitive policies and systems that target people of color.

We join the Paterson, New Jersey community and our partners at Black Lives Matter Paterson in mourning the horrific loss of Najee Seabrooks last week.

Two initiatives will protect the right to healthcare and other supportive services for North Carolinians with substance use disabilities, including access to agonist medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in jails across the state.