This week, the Baltimore Sun published an op-ed by OSI’s Addiction and Health Equity director, Scott Nolen who argues that “denying harm reduction services to people who use drugs is no different than denying seatbelts to people who drive.”
In “The ‘seatbelt’ approach to the opioid crisis,” Nolen points out that with more than 70,000 deaths in the U.S. attributed to overdoses, it’s the most urgent public health problem in this country. He argues that “the federal government’s inability to positively impact the crisis is all that more tragic when you consider the array of proven strategies that have had a transformative impact in other countries.”
Read the piece here.
