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MEDICATION FOR OPIOID USE DISORDER
NEONATAL ABSTINENCE SYNDROME
FIRST RESPONDER & FENTANYL OVERDOSE
HARM REDUCTION VS ABSTINENCE
OPIOID CRISIS AS A "WHITE ISSUE"
IDENTIFYING JUSTICE-INVOLVED PEOPLE
SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION FACILITIES (SCFs)
LAW ENFORCEMENT "CRACKDOWNS"
NALOXONE
DRUG INDUCED HOMICIDE CHARGES
SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
ADDICTION VS. DEPENDENCE
OPIOIDS FOR CHRONIC PAIN
JAILS TREATING ADDICTIN
STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE
STIGMATIZING IMAGES
"HITTING ROCK BOTTOM"
CO-DEPENDENCE
MULTIPLE PROVIDERS
POLYSUBSTANCES
DRUG COURTS
ILLICIT VS PHARMACEUTICAL FENTANYL
SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER
Fentanyl-laced Drugs
RESOURCES
Medication for Opioid Use Disorder
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The Wrong Way to Treat Opioid Addiction
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The New York Times
"Life-saving Opioid Addiction Treatments Get a Negative Slant"
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Columbia Journalism Review
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
"My Baby Was Born With a Drug Dependence,
" VICE
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Rural Pregnant Women With Opioid Addiction Find a Doctor, Not a Judge
," California Health Care Foundation
First Responders and Fentanyl Overdose
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A Dangerous Fentanyl Myth Lives On
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Columbia Journalism Review
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You Can't Overdose On Fentanyl By Touching It
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VICE
Harm Reduction vs. Abstinence
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In Rehab, 'Two Warring Factions': Abstinence vs. Medication"
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The New York Times
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The Next AA? Welcome to Moderation Management, where Abstinence from Alcohol Isn't the Answer
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The Guardian
Opioid Crisis as a "White Issue"
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In Cities Where it Once Reigned, Heroin is Disappearing
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The New York Times
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Whitewashed: The African-American Opioid Epidemic
," Chicago Urban League,
Chicago Reporter
Identifying Justice-Involved People
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Open Letter: Humanizing Language for People with Criminal Records
," Prison Studies Project
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Inmate. Prisoner. Other. Discussed.
," The Marshall Project
Supervised Consumption Facilities
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A Tale of Two Cities in the Grips of the Opioid Crisis
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The Nation
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Assessing the Evidence on Supervised Drug Consumption Sites
," RAND Corporation
Law Enforcement "Crackdowns"
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More Imprisonment Does Not Reduce State Drug Problems
," Pew Charitable Trusts
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The Federal Agency that Fuels the Opioid Crisis
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The New York Times
MEDICATION FOR OPIOID USE DISORDER
NEONATAL ABSTINENCE SYNDROME
FIRST RESPONDER & FENTANYL OVERDOSE
HARM REDUCTION VS ABSTINENCE
OPIOID CRISIS AS A "WHITE ISSUE"
IDENTIFYING JUSTICE-INVOLVED PEOPLE
SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION FACILITIES (SCFs)
LAW ENFORCEMENT "CRACKDOWNS"
NALOXONE
DRUG INDUCED HOMICIDE CHARGES
SYRINGE EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
ADDICTION VS. DEPENDENCE
OPIOIDS FOR CHRONIC PAIN
JAILS TREATING ADDICTIN
STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE
STIGMATIZING IMAGES
"HITTING ROCK BOTTOM"
CO-DEPENDENCE
MULTIPLE PROVIDERS
POLYSUBSTANCES
DRUG COURTS
ILLICIT VS PHARMACEUTICAL FENTANYL
SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER
Fentanyl-laced Drugs
Naloxone
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U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Naloxone and Opioid Overdose
," U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Understanding Naloxone
," Harm Reduction Coalition
Drug-Induced Homicide Charges
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They Shared Drugs. Someone Died. Does That Make Them Killers?
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The New York Times
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The Rage of Overdose Grief Makes it All Too Easy to Misdirect Blame
," Filter Magazine
Syringe Exchange Programs
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A Needle Exchange Program Stirs a Fight in Orange County
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The New York Times
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Needle Exchanges Find New Champion Among Republicans
," Kaiser Health News
Addiction vs. Dependence
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Why Taking Drugs to Treat Addiction Doesn’t Mean You’re ‘Still Addicted’
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STAT News
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Unintended Consequences: Inside the Fallout of America's Crackdown on Opioid
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The Washington Post
Opioids for Chronic Pain
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What The Media Gets Wrong About Opioids
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Columbia Journalism Review
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The Chronic-pain Quandary: Amid a Reckoning Over Opioids, a Doctor Crusades for Caution in Cutting Back
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STAT News
Jails Treating Addiction
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Opioid Users are Filling Jails. Why Don't Jails Treat Them?
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The New York Times
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Groundbreaking Letter from Dozens of Sheriffs and DAs Calls for MAT in Jails
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Filter Magazine
Stigmatizing Language
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The AP Learns to Talk About Addiction. Will Other Media Follow?
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Undark Magazine
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Journalists, Stop Using Words like 'Addict' and 'Drug Abuser'
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Slate
Stigmatizing Images
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How Photography Exploits the Vulnerable
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The New York Times
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I'm so Sick of Opioid Disaster Porn
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Slate
"Hitting Rock Bottom" & "Tough Love"
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The Tragic Pseudoscience of Forcing 'Addicts' to 'Hit Rock Bottom'
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New York Magazine
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New York Prisons Offer 'Tough Love' Boot Camp. But Prisoners Say They're 'Torture' and 'Hell'
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The Appeal
Co-dependence Myth
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Why the Codependency Myth of Drug Addiction Needs to Die
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VICE News
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Fighting Heroin Addiction With My Mother on My Side
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The New York Times
"Doctor Shopping" & Pain Patients
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The Pain Refugees
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Harper's
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Cutting Down on Opioids Has Made Life Miserable for Chronic Pain Patients
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Slate
Polysubstances
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We Need to Talk About Benzodiazepines—Including Their Use in Drug Combination
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Filter Magazine
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Meth vs Opioids: America Has Two Epidemics, But Focuses on One
,"Kaiser Health News
Drug Courts
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How America Overdosed on Drug Courts
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Pacific Standard Magazine
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Desperate and the Dead: Courts
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Boston Globe,
Spotlight Investigation
Illicit vs. Pharmaceutical Fentanyl
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The Numbers Are So Staggering,' Overdose Deaths Set a Record Last Year
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The New York Times
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Exposure to Fentanyl Doesn't Kill. But Misinformation Does
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
Substance Use Disorder
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The National Recovery Survey,
" Recovery Research Institute
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The Science of Drug Use and Addiction: The Basics
," National Institute on Drug Abuse
Fentanyl-laced Drugs
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The White House And Federal Scientists Are Pushing The Myth That Marijuana Is Laced With Fentanyl
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BuzzFeed News
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The Truth About Drug Dealers Lacing Cocaine with Fentanyl
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VICE News