The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR)

Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, Peer Navigator Intervention and Opioid-Related Adverse Events for Emergency Department Patients.

Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigators Kelly Doran, Ethan Cowan, Marya Gwadz, Donna Shelley, Chuck Cleland, and Jennifer McNeely - Peer Navigator Intervention and Opioid-Related Adverse Events for Emergency Department Patients
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Forest plot illustrating difference-in-differences analysis of prior authorization prohibitions and 180-day buprenorphine treatment retention. Variables include 'Never treated as controls' and 'Not yet treated as controls', with corresponding adjusted estimates and P values.

State laws prohibiting prior authorization for buprenorphine were not associated with significant changes in 180-day treatment retention among privately insured patients with #OpioidUseDisorder.

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Multi-component app improves viral suppression in men who use crystal meth At the recent Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) in Denver, US, the use of an app for men with HIV who also use illicit stimulants led to 58% lower odds of having a detectable viral load after six months, when compared to a control group who did not use the app in a fully remote randomised controlled trial.

News from CROI 2026: Multi-component app improves viral suppression in men who use crystal meth #CROI2026

Dark gray maze-like pattern fills black background. Large font at top left reads, "We miss our loved ones whose lives were stolen by overdose. They should be here." The words, "They should be here" are in purple, the rest are in white. Smaller white text below reads, "Black Balloon Day and every day, they are on our minds and in our hearts." Below this is a border of white stencil-like illustrations of various flowers at different heights. NHRC 30th anniversary logo in bottom right corner.

🧵Each of the people we've lost to #Overdose were so loved, & are loved still. We miss them. As we hold their memories close, we hold everyone they left behind in our hearts, too. Your grief matters and so do you. We hope our grieving overdose zine brings you some...
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Reassessing the People’s Hospital in the Bronx After a militant 1970 hospital takeover birthed a pioneering detox program in the South Bronx, New York City is now studying what it dismantled, and what redress requires amid an ongoing overdose cris...

🧵 #HealthCare is at its best when it's truly patient/person-centered. NHRC's Community & Capacity Building Manager Hiawatha Collins joined fellow panelists at @nychealthy.bsky.social's Healing ARC (Acknowledgement, Redress, Closure) Project symposium, where they
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AI agents are ‘aeroplanes for the mind’: five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots As artificial-intelligence systems take on more of the scientific workflow, the central goal should not be complete automation, but designing platforms that preserve creativity, responsibility and sur...

AI agents are ‘aeroplanes for the mind’: five ways to ensure that scientists are responsible pilots
"The result could be human–machine co-evolution: the scientists who adapt fastest might be the ones who set the pace for tomorrow’s discovery."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and risk of substance use disorders among US veterans with type 2 diabetes: cohort study Objectives To investigate whether initiation of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists is associated with both reduced risks of incident alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, nicotine, opioid, and ot...

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and risk of substance use disorders among US veterans with type 2 diabetes: cohort study
"These observational data suggest a potential role for GLP-1 receptor agonists in both the prevention and the treatment of various SUDs"
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Impending Parks Ban Looms Over Phoenix Harm Reduction Efforts - Filter A looming ban on harm reduction services in public parks in Phoenix has just been delayed for a further two ...

Phoenix's ban on harm reduction services in parks, though delayed, is already impacting participants, city harm reductionists tell Alexander Lekhtman.

“We’re not going to let ourselves be pushed out of our community just because of some nosy neighbors.”

Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Eligibility and Awareness Among Older Adults with Opioid use Disorder.

Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigator Benjamin Han - Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Eligibility and Awareness Among Older Adults with Opioid use Disorder
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Wonderful to see so many join us live for today's Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds on MOUD in pregnancy! Join us again, next week, when we'll be hearing from Yale Psychiatry's Ismene Petrakis, MD on PTSD in the setting of SUD treatment.

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What decades of research reveal about involuntary substance use treatment – and why evidence points elsewhere Many cities are considering involuntary substance use treatment as a solution to drug use among the homeless. But research doesn’t support this strategy.

What decades of research reveal about involuntary substance use treatment – and why evidence points elsewhere
theconversation.com/what-decades...

Map showing Washington Heights and East Harlem with highlighted areas: Washington Heights BID and 125th Street BID in red, 5-min walking buffer in orange, and 10-min walking buffer in blue, with OnPoint Washington Heights and OnPoint East Harlem.

Opening of overdose prevention centers in New York City was not associated with significant changes in neighborhood foot traffic or consumer spending, suggesting no observed economic harms near these #HarmReduction sites.

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Line graphs compare mental health treatment services by language, 2015-2024. Graph A: Facilities offering services in a specified language. Graph B: Counties with at least one facility. Both show higher percentages for non-English, non-Asian languages.

From 2015 to 2024, only 5.6% of US mental health facilities offered treatment services in an Asian language, with access concentrated in metropolitan areas and nearly absent in rural counties.

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Writing Accountability Groups Bring Many Benefits (opinion) Writing accountability groups support all faculty and address unequal workloads.

New from CDUHR PPM Core Director Dustin Duncan, WAGs can be both productivity tools and equity interventions.

Rebalancing Academic Productivity
Writing accountability groups support all faculty and address unequal workloads.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, Travel Time to Opioid Treatment Programs in Connecticut—Still Waiting for Methadone.

Check out the latest from CDUHR investigators Noa Krawczyk and David Frank - Travel Time to Opioid Treatment Programs in Connecticut—Still Waiting for Methadone
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Counting the costs of global HIV funding disruptions In a session on US government funding cuts at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) held in Denver, US this week, Dr Jennifer Kates, from the Kaiser Family Foundation, started by asking a crucial question: “What’s the impact on people?”

News from CROI 2026: Counting the costs of global HIV funding disruptions #CROI2026

What do U.S. adults think about the legal use of #psychedelics & other drugs?

% supporting legal use:

#Cannabis-65%
#Psilocybin-23%
#LSD-10%
#MDMA-9%
#Cocaine-8%

New @rand.org report does a deep dive, going beyond this simple yes/no/don't know question ⬇️

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Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, Alcohol and Cannabis co-use and HIV Risk, Treatment and Prevention Outcomes: A Scoping Review.

Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigators Yen-Tyng Chen and Justin Knox - Alcohol and Cannabis co-use and HIV Risk, Treatment and Prevention Outcomes: A Scoping Review
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Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research Around the world, governments are demanding that research funding follow broader political priorities. They should be careful what they wish for.

Don’t deprioritize curiosity-driven research
"Curiosity-driven research can lead to innovation outside scientists’ intended designs." - polymerase chain reaction (PCR), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Community health project in Kenya and Uganda dramatically cuts new HIV infections Large-scale study finds that simplifying delivery of prevention medication and improving connections to clinics is key

Community health project in Kenya and Uganda dramatically cuts new HIV infections
Large-scale study finds that simplifying delivery of prevention medication and improving connections to clinics is key
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French study confirms efficacy of on-demand PrEP Eight years after it started, the final results of a large French study that offered a choice of daily or event-driven oral PrEP (using tenofovir disoproxil/emtricitabine) were presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2026) in Denver, US yesterday.

News from CROI 2026: French study confirms efficacy of on-demand PrEP #CROI2026

Harm Reduction Without Humans? The Risks and Potential of AI - Filter In November 2023, California teenager Sam Nelson put a question to ChatGPT. “How many grams of kratom gets you a ...

"People are already using AI for harm reduction ... What’s left is the question of how harm can be minimized—and potential benefits maximized—when chatbots step into a role that has always depended on human judgment and human compassion."

Brooke Nolan reports:

Screenshot of paper title and authors for our new paper in Social Science & Medicine. Citation: Fleming, Taylor; Boyd, Jade; Kerr, Thomas; McNeil, Ryan. (2026) Haunted houses: Using photovoice to understand emotional geographies in single room occupancy housing. Social Science & Medicine, 396: 119106.

Our new photovoice paper draws on theories of haunted houses and emotional geographies to explore how settler colonialism, endemic gendered & racialized violence, and systemic neglect shape affective realities of living in single room occupancy housing.

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Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, Identifying Factors Associated With Intentional and Unintentional Fentanyl Use Among People Who Use Drugs in New York City.

Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigator Amanda Bunting - Identifying Factors Associated With Intentional and Unintentional Fentanyl Use Among People Who Use Drugs in New York City
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NIH research grant funding rates plummeted in 2025 Agency acknowledges young investigators are losing out as result of multiyear funding policy imposed by White House

NIH research grant funding rates plummeted in 2025
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Panel event in NYC on March 5, to launch Filter Senior Editor Helen Redmond's book—"Liquid Handcuffs: Policing & Punishment in Methadone Clinics." ⬇️

Image of first page from the journal article mentioned and linked in post, Developing Spanish Language Intervention Content to Address Health Disparities among People Who Use Drugs, and Other Hard-To-Reach Populations.

Check out the latest study from CDUHR investigators Ian Aronson, Olivia Marcus, and Alex Bennett - Developing Spanish Language Intervention Content to Address Health Disparities among People Who Use Drugs, and Other Hard-To-Reach Populations
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Cabotegravir plus Rilpivirine for Persons with HIV and Adherence Challenges | NEJM Randomized trials of long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy (ART) in persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who face challenges with adherence to oral medication are lacking. We con...

It’s time we figure out how to make systems work for them! 3/3

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Understanding substance use across the full spectrum of sexual identity A study led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine reveals higher rates of substance use among all non-heterosexual groups in the U.S., including people who are uncert...

Understanding substance use across the full spectrum of sexual identity
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