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Improving Health Care Quality

Too Many Lives Lost: Comparing Overdose Mortality Rates and Policy Solutions Across High-Income Countries

Blog / May 19, 2022

Stuart Malcolm (L), a doctor with the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, puts on a mask before speaking with homeless people in front of a boarded-up shop.

Advancing Health Equity

Expanding Access to Equitable Behavioral Health Services

Blog / May 12, 2022

Syringes and vials of naloxone

Improving Health Care Quality

Overdose Deaths Surged in the First Half of 2021, Underscoring Urgent Need for Action

Blog / Feb 07, 2022

Emergency workers take overdose patient to hospital

Improving Health Care Quality

The Drug Overdose Toll in 2020 and Near-Term Actions for Addressing It

Blog / Aug 16, 2021

"It's Really, Truly Everywhere:" How the Opioid Crisis Worsened With COVID-19

Improving Health Care Quality

“It’s Really, Truly Everywhere”: How the Opioid Crisis Worsened with COVID-19

Podcast / Jun 04, 2021

Jaime Puerta holds a portrait of his son Daniel Puerta-Johnson, who died in April 2020 at the age of 16 from a pill containing fentanyl.

Improving Health Care Quality

The Spike in Drug Overdose Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Options to Move Forward

Blog / Mar 25, 2021

The Potential Implications of COVID-19 for the Opioid Epidemic

Improving Health Care Quality

The Implications of COVID-19 for Opioid-Related Mortality

Blog / Aug 28, 2020

2019 Scorecard on State Health SystemPerformance

Improving Health Care Quality

2019 Scorecard on State Health System Performance

Scorecard / Jun 12, 2019

Naloxone and the opioid epidemic

Achieving Universal Coverage

In Medicaid Expansion States, More People Had Access to Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug

Journal Article / May 17, 2019

Improving Health Care Quality

10 Notable Health Care Events of 2018

Blog / Dec 27, 2018

Opioid epidemic long road ahead

Achieving Universal Coverage

Medicaid Provisions in the SUPPORT Act: An Important Step Forward in the Opioid Epidemic, but the Road Ahead Is Long

Blog / Nov 13, 2018

Opioid legislation

Improving Health Care Quality

A Closer Look at the Senate’s Bipartisan Legislation Targeting the Opioid Epidemic

Blog / Sep 13, 2018

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