A layperson essay on injectable naltrexone (Alkermes’ Vivitrol)

https://oceanbreezerecovery.org/blog/vivitrol/

An entry into issues that deserve more in-depth consideration.

Comments are worth reading.

This month, May. 1997, Clinton Riggs died. Posthumous prevention award is needed.

Link to information about Riggs and his ‘YIELD’ sign

Excerpts from the Gonsalves interview posted yesterday

Community based opioid initiatives

What policy changes would slow the death rate?

We know what to do about opioids. Dayton, Ohio, used to have one of the worst overdose rates the country. They cut it in half. How? They did it by providing naloxone to first responders, which reduced overdose fatalities. They did it by having a clean-needle program, so that drug users stopped sharing needles. They did expanding access to methadone to treat addiction.

By contrast, Scott County in Southern Indiana is a place where the state authorities failed to act decisively. In 2008, public health officials began to discern the first signs of opioid abuse. By 2015, they had 215 cases of H.I.V. in Scott County.

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My colleague Forrest Crawford and I wondered if this could have been prevented. The C.D.C. had data showing when individuals in Scott County were infected and who their contacts were. Using that, we made a computer simulation where one can, essentially, run the epidemic back in time and see what might have been.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/health/gonsalves-aids-actup-epidemiology.html

Hepatitis and injecting in the news, April 2019

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https://issuu.com/theepidemiologymonitor/docs/final-april-2019-the-epidemiology-m

Gregg Gonsalves, Yale epidemiologist working on epidemics, MacArthur Awardee

Link

From 1957 (with involvement of Dr. Rema Lapouse)

Heroin and opioids in the UK

A PhD dissertation from the London School: 

Link to online PDF

Hallam, Chris (2016) Script Doctors and Vicious Addicts: Subcultures, Drugs, and Regulation under the ’British System’, c.1917 to c.1960. PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.03141178

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