Four awards will fund groundbreaking research in the criminal justice system. Read about it here.

School of Public Health and Health Sciences Professor Elizabeth Evans studies and promotes interventions to help people with substance abuse disorders. Read the full article here!

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...