Public Libraries Respond to the Opioid Crisis with Their Communities

Public Libraries Respond to the Opioid Crisis with Their Communities

As the impact of the opioid epidemic is felt in communities across the US, public libraries are choosing to be part of the community response. With funding from the Institute of Muse

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How can the Opioid Crisis learn from the HIV/Aids Epidemic??

HIV prevention drugs will be available without a prescription in California

• Addresses reality of STIGMA and BIAS
• Over the counter HIV prevention California
• Society has come a long way since the HIV/AIDs epidemic emerged. We can learn a lot from this his

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"Deaths of Despair" - Millbank blog about prevention's existence outside of healthcare

“Deaths of Despair” – Prevention for a Growing Crisis

https://www.milbank.org/2019/01/deaths-of-despair-prevention-for-a-growing-crisis/

"...to be effective we must recognize the economic and social equivalents of public health prevention – the opioid

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PREVENTION: Identifying the Next Drug Epidemic by Testing Municipal Wastewater!

Municipal water testing as an innovative approach to track + measure drug use. 

Key Findings:

• When used in combination with geospatial mapping and advanced analytics, wastewater-based epidemiology has the potential to help officials predict rather than

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