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Formerly a homeless person who used heroin, she advocated for New Yorkers affected by housing insecurity, drugs, HIV and hepatitis.

However, the overdose death rate resulting from synthetic opioids, especially fentanyl, rose between 2017 and 2018.

A systematic review of hep C treatment outcomes in this population shows they have high cure rates and relatively low reinfection rates.

Researchers point to heroin use as a major driver of new hepatitis C and HIV cases among people who inject drugs.

Researchers believe that lack of economic opportunity drives an increase in opioid use among local residents.

Opioid use disorder is fueling a rise in youth hepatitis C cases and a stabilization of a long decline in HIV among people who use drugs.

Experts are not certain what this latest trend signifies for the trajectory of the opioid use disorder epidemic, however.

A recent opinion piece in the Columbia Journalism Review argues that the distinction matters.

Health advocate David Whiters has mastered some smooth moves since overcoming addiction and hep C.

Indianapolis native Matt Heskett beat both opioid addiction and hep C. Now he’s paying his good fortune forward with activism and education.

After a reformulated version of the opioid painkiller hit the market in 2010, some with opioid use disorder migrated from pills to heroin.

In some non–U.S. nations, health care providers can prescribe medical-grade heroin and supervise patients as they take it.

This finding suggests sex between men and the sharing of drug-sniffing equipment are possible routes of transmission.

Experts say the deadly prescription painkiller could soon replace heroin entirely.

The city’s Harm Reduction Action Center is collaborating with local journalists for a four-part in-depth series about addiction in Colorado.

The national increase in acute HCV infection is related to the country’s opioid epidemic and associated increases in injection drug use.