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Supplies including syringes, bandaids and antiseptic pads waits to be used inside a safe injection site.

How Overdose Prevention Centers Became Political Scapegoats

by Vida Foubister

Although some politicians blame harm reduction efforts for societal problems, others view them as lifesaving solutions

Governance
Media crews work at the press room in the McCamish Pavilion on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus ahead of the first 2024 presidential debate between U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. President Donald Trump in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27, 2024.

Health Policy Takeaways from 2024's First U.S. Presidential Debate

by Chloe Searchinger

Where the presidential debate mentioned or missed on COVID responses, drug pricing, Medicare, and reproductive health

Members of the Iraqi military train at the Counter Terrorism Service training location, as observed by U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter in Baghdad
Governance

Counterterrorism Concepts and Health Policy Debates

by David P. Fidler

Attacking drug cartels and applying pro-life principles to aid echoes ideas from the war on terrorism

DOCUMENT DATE:  February 28, 2020  Travis Hayes, 65, injects what he says is the synthetic drug fentanyl, across the street from where San Francisco mayor London Breed just held a news conference introducing legislation in curbing the rise of deadly overdoses in the city, at the Tenderloin section of San Francisco, California, U.S., February 27, 2020.
Trade

Fentanyl and Foreign Policy

by David P. Fidler

A domestic crisis confronts transnational challenges and geopolitical calculations

A worker dries fabrics at a dye factory in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, on March 9, 2022.
Poverty

Tolerating the Pain: Accessing Medical Morphine in Bangladesh

by Tasnim Ahmed

Roadblocks to getting opioids leave seriously ill patients coping with unbearable pain