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Improving Healthcare Access Among the Newly Decarcerated

October 20, 2020

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Bernat Navarro-Serer published a new article in the Journal of Science Policy & Governance (JSPG) on improving healthcare access among formerly incarcerated individuals living with addiction. This article was awarded honorable mention as part of the joint 2020 Policy Memo Competition hosted by JSPG and the National Science Policy Network. The […]

Bernat Navarro-Serer ⋅ Perspectives in Research addiction, incarceration, opioids ⋅

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Are Vaccines the Next Step in Controlling the Opioid Epidemic?

April 11, 2019

Flu season is still going strong, meaning that almost every primary care visit concludes by ensuring that the patient has gotten their flu shot. There is no cure for the flu, but a simple shot greatly decreases an individual’s chances of contracting the virus and keeps epidemics from spreading in the population. What if we […]

Laura Pugh ⋅ Perspectives in Research opioids, vaccines ⋅

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When Doing Science Isn’t Enough: Critical Issues in Science Policy

November 14, 2018

I used to feel like doing science was my way of putting good into the world. I would work on problems related to human health and make discoveries that could be implemented to help people. Recently, however, I have come to realize that research cannot possibly help people unless it is adequately reflected in policy. […]

Lisa Learman ⋅ Events and Happenings climate change, opioids, policy, reproductive health, Sexual Health ⋅

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From Crisis to Consensus: Guidelines Aim to Reduce Over-Prescribing of Abused Drugs

October 12, 2018

Every day, 115 Americans are killed by opioid overdose. That this number is so strikingly high underlines the language of ‘“epidemics” and “emergencies” in politicians’ speeches and newspaper headlines. Thousands of articles and millions of research dollars have become components of a concerted effort to understand, quantify and alleviate the opioid epidemic in the United […]

Benjamin Bell ⋅ Perspectives in Research drug abuse, medication, opioids ⋅

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Opioids: A Different Kind of Epidemic

July 7, 2017

Epidemic. We typically associate this word with infectious disease outbreaks, often outside of the United States. But right here in the U.S., we are in the middle of a unique epidemic: an opioid epidemic. Opioids have long been used for the treatment of short-term pain, and more recently for long-term pain. But rising rates of […]

Rebecca Tweedell ⋅ Perspectives in Research addiction, opioids, pain management ⋅

Curbing the Tide of the Opioid Epidemic

April 20, 2016

Every 19 minutes, someone dies from an opioid overdose in the United States. Yet the number of opioids prescribed annually is so high that each American adult could be medicated on a full bottle of pills around the clock for a whole month. Between 2013 and 2014, the risk of dying from opioid overdose increased […]

Charles Odonkor ⋅ Perspectives in Research opioids, Pain, pain management, patient safety ⋅

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