Resources

The aim of this study was to examine the risks and benefits of research participation from the perspective of pregnant/postpartum people with OUD who have experienced incarceration.

This systematic review with meta-analysis aimed to pool results from randomized placebo-controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate efficacy and safety of prescription psychostimulants (PPs) for amphetami

This study aims to explore why Black communities continue to experience a greater burden of fatalities than their white counterparts by working with Black community members in Indianapolis.

Examining withdrawal, and its role in people who use illicit opioids (PWUIO)’s willingness to engage in risk, may aid in the development of alternative theories of risk involvement and create discu

A systematic review of safer smoking practices.

We examined whether rurality, social inequity, and racialized segregation across communities from four states in the HEALing Communities Study (HCS) were associated with 1) greater perceived commun

This study adds to the literature on how people who use drugs qualitatively experience trauma resulting from witnessing and responding to overdose, through the lens of the Trauma-Informed Theory of

Boston Medical Center, the City of Boston, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts partnered in 2022 to offer low-barrier transitional housing to encampment residents and provide co-located clinical stab

Our aim was to examine uptake, characteristics, treatment patterns and retention of individuals initiating extended-release subcutaneous buprenorphine (BUP-ER), a monthly injectable opioid agonist

We aimed to understand patient perceptions of medication diversion from jail-based medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) programs and the factors that contribute to and reduce diversion.

To introduce a new concept of Substance Use Health that meets the needs of people where they are and is free of stigma.

This narrative review assessed major epidemiological trends in xylazine-involved overdoses in North America, aiming to identify harm reduction priorities

According to persons who inject morphine, oral morphine capsules are easy to dissolve and then inject, giving them the image of an "injectable" opioid substitution treatment (OST).

Using an 18-20-year follow-up of people with heroin dependence, we aimed to identify i) distinct trajectories of treatment use, ii) whether baseline characteristics predict treatment trajectory gro

We investigated preference of stimulant safer substances.

The objectives of this study were: (1) to systematically explore national-level drug policies’ sensitivity and responsiveness to women, pregnant women, and children; and (2) to examine the adherenc

This systematic review synthesized qualitative evidence examining the experiences of peer work in nonpeer-led drug use service settings.