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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SAY NO TO STIGMA...A federal judge ruled last week that the nation’s first proposed safe injection!!

Federal Judge Approves First Safe Injection Site

"A federal judge ruled last week that the nation’s first proposed safe injection site does not violate the 1986 Controlled Substances Act, giving communities one more tool to fight the opioid epidemic.

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The opioid crisis echoing the stigma of the crack epidemic

Opioid Use by Pregnant and Parenting Women: Let’s Not Repeat the Mistakes of 25 Years Ago

read full article @ https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/articles/opioid-use-by-pregnant-and-parenting-women-lets-not-repeat-the-mistakes-of-25-years-ago/?utm_sour

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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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