Study finds ‘startling’ inequities in end-of-life opioid treatment

Investigators at Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute reported Black and Hispanic patients who had poor-prognosis cancer were less likely than white patients to receive opioid medications.

Harvard Gazette • harvard
Jan. 17, 2023 ~6 min

Significant barriers for patients seeking medication for opioid use disorder

A Harvard Chan School study reveals that buprenorphine-naloxone, a highly effective, evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder, is difficult to access in states with high rates of death associated with opiates.

Chris Sweeney • harvard
June 3, 2019 ~3 min


Harvard-Michigan opioid summit explores addiction, policy

A University of Michigan-Harvard University summit brought experts from the two universities as well as outside organizations to consider ways to address the opioid epidemic.

Alvin Powell • harvard
May 13, 2019 ~7 min

Harvard specialist focuses on opioid crisis as U.S. life expectancy drops

Against a backdrop of recent jumps in drug overdose deaths and suicide, McLean Hospital psychologist R. Kathryn McHugh discusses the opioid crisis and increasing suicide deaths with the Gazette.

Alvin Powell • harvard
Dec. 10, 2018 ~13 min

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