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Doing Our Best in a Broken System: The Urgent Need for Expansion of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder Treatments in the United States by Cohen, Shawn, Tilley, Jess, Yocheved, Avi, Sue, Kimberly L.

“…In replyIn this commentary, we respond to Dr Vogel and Dr Dürstelar's letter to our original piece “A Plea From People Who Use Drugs to CliniciansNew Ways to…”
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Providers' knowledge and perception of xylazine in the unregulated drug supply: a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study by Hill, Katherine, Minahan-Rowley, Rebecca, Biegacki, Emma T, Heimer, Robert, Sue, Kimberly L

“…Xylazine is increasingly prevalent in the unregulated opioid supply in the United States. Exposure to this adulterant can lead to significant harm, including…”
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Housing-based syringe services programs to improve access to safer injecting equipment for people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada: a spatially oriented qualitative study by Chayama, Koharu Loulou, Ng, Cara, Fleming, Taylor, Small, Will, Sue, Kimberly L, McNeil, Ryan

“…Housing environments shape injection drug-related risks and harms and thus represent a critical implementation setting for syringe services programs (SSPs). As…”
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Clinical considerations for the management of xylazine overdoses and xylazine‐related wounds by Sue, Kimberly L., Hawk, Kathryn

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Xylazine and Overdoses: Trends, Concerns, and Recommendations by Alexander, Ryan S, Canver, Bethany R, Sue, Kimberly L, Morford, Kenneth L

“…Xylazine is a nonopioid veterinary anesthetic and sedative that is increasingly detected in the illicit drug supply in the United States. Data indicate a…”
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Violence at Rikers Island: Does the Doctor Make It Worse? A Clinician Ethnographer's Work Amidst Carceral Structural Violence by Sue, Kimberly L

“…In this article, I describe the dilemmas of working as a physician-ethnographer within the Rikers Island jail healthcare system before and at the beginning of…”
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Harm Reduction in Health Care Settings by Chan, Carolyn A., Canver, Bethany, McNeil, Ryan, Sue, Kimberly L.

“…Harm reduction is an approach to reduce the risk of harms to an individual using substances without requiring abstinence. This review discusses…”
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Bringing Harm Reduction into Health Policy — Combating the Overdose Crisis by Sue, Kimberly L, Fiellin, David A

“…In the face of increasing drug-related morbidity and mortality, the Biden administration could signal a change in federal strategy by fully endorsing harm…”
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A Plea From People Who Use Drugs to Clinicians: New Ways to Initiate Buprenorphine Are Urgently Needed in the Fentanyl Era by Sue, Kimberly L., Cohen, Shawn, Tilley, Jess, Yocheved, Avi

“…With the worst opioid overdose death crisis in the United States history, urgent new approaches to assist people who use drugs onto medication for opioid use…”
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Changing approaches to treating opioid withdrawal in the USA by Hughes, Marcus, Edinoff, Amber, Sue, Kimberly L

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Improving the Health of People Who Inject Drugs Through COVID-19–Related Policies by Hill, Katherine, Thakarar, Kinna, Eslinger, Hilary, Prosperino, Lill, Sue, Kimberly L.

“…Th COVID-19 pandemic, with its multiplicative harms, has wreaked havoc across the world; illness, pain, death, supply shortages, unemployment, school…”
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Safety in solitude? Competing risks and drivers of solitary drug use among women who inject drugs and implications for overdose detection by Rosen, Joseph G., Glick, Jennifer L., Zhang, Leanne, Cooper, Lyra, Olatunde, Praise F., Pelaez, Danielle, Rouhani, Saba, Sue, Kimberly L., Park, Ju Nyeong

“…Background and aims Solitary drug use (SDU) can amplify risks of fatal overdose. We examined competing risks and drivers of SDU, as well as harm reduction…”
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“It’s Like A Partnership”: Exploring the Primary Care Experiences and Patient-Defined Goals of People Who Use Drugs by Dunham, Katherine, Rivas, Catherine, Medina Blanco, Paula, Kolod, Betty, Salvati, Carli, Clark, Katie, Sue, Kimberly L., Hagaman, Ashley, Weiss, Jeffrey J.

“…Background Primary care is an important yet underutilized resource in addressing the overdose crisis. Previous studies have identified important aspects of…”
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Using a structural vulnerability framework to understand the impact of COVID‐19 on the lives of Medicaid beneficiaries receiving substance use treatment in New York City by Zhen‐Duan, Jenny, Gade, Neerav, Falgas‐Bagué, Irene, Sue, Kimberly L., DeJonckheere, Melissa, Alegría, Margarita

“…Objective To investigate how the COVID‐19 pandemic impacted low‐income individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) in New York City (NYC) during the…”
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Black Pain Matters: Prioritizing Antiracism and Equity in the Opioid Epidemic by Essien, Utibe R, Ifidon, Ayomipo, Sue, Kimberly L

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Recognition and Treatment of Wounds in Persons Using Xylazine: A Case Report From New Haven, Connecticut by Dowton, Anne, Doernberg, Molly, Heiman, Erica, Barelli, Peter, Golden, Marjorie, Wang, He, Leventhal, Jonathan, Morford, Kenneth L., Sue, Kimberly L.

“…Xylazine is an α2-adrenergic agonist that is commonly used as a veterinary tranquilizer and is increasingly present in the unregulated US drug supply since at…”
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In Support of Community Drug Checking Programs: Position Statement of AMERSA, Inc. (Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction) by Hill, Katherine, Dunham, Katherine, Brokos, Zoe, Butner, Jenna L, Hull, Ilana, Sue, Kimberly L, Li, Li, Thakarar, Kinna

“…Position statements clarify key issues that are in alignment with the vision, mission, and values of the AMERSA, Inc. (Association for Multidisciplinary…”
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Perspectives of Clinicians and Staff at Community-Based Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Settings on Linkages With Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine Programs by Sue, Kimberly L, Chawarski, Marek, Curry, Leslie, McNeil, Ryan, Coupet, Jr, Edouard, Schwartz, Robert P, Wilder, Christine, Tsui, Judith I, Hawk, Kathryn F, D'Onofrio, Gail, O'Connor, Patrick G, Fiellin, David A, Edelman, E Jennifer

“…An increasing number of emergency departments (EDs) are initiating buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) and linking patients to ongoing community-based…”
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Drawing on Black and Queer Communities' Harm Reduction Histories to Improve Overdose Prevention Strategies and Policies by Johnson, Sterling, Sue, Kimberly L

“…Harm reduction emerged as a set of strategies developed by and for people who use opioids and other substances and strive to do so in ways that are as safe as…”
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A Plea From People Who Use Drugs to Clinicians: New Ways to Initiate Buprenorphine are Urgently Needed in the Fentanyl Era by Sue, Kimberly L., Cohen, Shawn, Tilley, Jess, Yocheved, Avi

“…With the worst opioid overdose death crisis in the United States history, urgent new approaches to assist people who use drugs onto medication for opioid use…”
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