Enlarge this image In several European countries and Canada, patients with longterm opioid addiction are prescribed pharmaceutical grade heroin which they inject…

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What’s The Evidence That Supervised Drug Injection Sites Save Lives?
by Elana Gordon September 7, 2018Enlarge this image Supervised injection sites, like Insite in Vancouver, Canada, provide drug users with clean needles and other supplies to help…
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Enlarge this image Lisa Iezzoni is professor of medicine at Harvard. She has multiple sclerosis and researches disparities in health care for…
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Healing Drug Injection Wounds Can Help Get Care Closer To Patients
by Elana Gordon March 28, 2018Enlarge this image A spread of ointments, gauze, sterile water and other items stocked inside Prevention Point Philadelphia’s mobile wound care unit.…
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For Aspiring Doctors With Disabilities, Many Medical Schools Come Up Short
by Elana Gordon March 13, 2018Enlarge this image Feranmi Okanlami, now a doctor, became partially paralyzed after an accident in 2013. He says adjustments for his disability…
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Enlarge this image Philadelphia officials cleared the way for a safe injection site for drug users. But there are many details to…
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Enlarge this image Ronda Goldfein, attorney and executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, holds an envelope that revealed a…