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News Tipoffs - Massachusetts Editors Newsletter for Monday June 17, 2024 ( 1 items )  

NIH-Funded Intervention Did Not Impact Opioid-Related Overdose Death Rates Over Evaluation Period
BETHESDA, Maryland, June 17 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institute on Drug Abuse issued the following news release: * * * COVID-19 pandemic and increasingly dangerous drug supply among factors that may have contributed to diminished impact of intervention * * * A data-driven intervention that engaged communities to rapidly deploy evidence-based practices to reduce opioid-related overdose deaths - such as increasing naloxone distribution and enhancing  more