Rithika Senthilkumar ’22 earned dual degrees in Public Health Sciences and Biochemistry with Honors from UMass Amherst. She is passionate...

An emergent intervention to address the opioid epidemic is the use of multidisciplinary outreach teams which connect an individual in the...

The District Court in Holyoke, Massachusetts, is among the first courts nationwide to provide access to medications for opioid use...

Individuals with opioid use disorder released to communities after incarceration experience an elevated risk for overdose death....

New research from Tufts University School of Medicine, UMass Amherst and UMass Chan Medical School aims to reduce opioid deaths among...

Jails are thought to be ‘Ground Zero’ for the opioid epidemic in the nation. That’s because in addition to having high rates of opioid...

Adams et al. demonstrate why US states should learn from Massachusetts on how to build ‘administrative big data’ warehouses for the...

Liz Evans and colleagues published a recent study entitled "The Massachusetts public health data warehouse and the opioid epidemic: A...

The webinar "Toxic Intersections: Substance Use, Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation" will be hosted by the Opioid Task...

The New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC) is accepting applications from both graduate and 3rd-4th year undergraduate...

Join RIZE Massachusetts on Thursday, March 10th 9:00 am - 11:00 am for the virtual event Learning from Lived Experienced: Understanding...

From NIDA: "The National Institute on Drug Abuse Summer Research Internship Program supports undergraduate students with a focus on...

The Massachusetts Society of Addiction Medicine (MASAM) is hosting a series of virtual sessions on substance use disorder practice. These...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) hosts Consultation on Treatment of Drug Use Disorders and Associated Mental Health...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) published a news release on a recent JCOIN study authored by Dr. Evans and colleagues: "A...

"Researchers are working to mitigate the effects of the opioid epidemic through compassionate care, evidence-based solutions, and machine...

"Associate Professor of Health Promotion and Policy Elizabeth Evans shared her expertise to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime...

From the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (JSAT): JSAT Call for Papers for Special Issue: JSAT Lived Experience The Editors of JSAT...

Autumn Gagnon has been selected for the New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC) Health Equity Internship Program. Autumn is...

"On Monday, October 25, 2021, Dr. Liz Evans, associate professor of Public Health at UMass-Amherst and co-PI of the JCOIN Massachusetts...