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Patient Navigation for People Who Use Drugs

In 2019, NASTAD Drug User Health received CDC funding to oversee a demonstration project that would fund syringe services programs (SSPs) to provide patient navigation services for participants. Between 2020 and 2022, eight SSPs around the United States developed and implemented patient navigation services to facilitate engagement with medical and social services for people who use drugs (PWUD).

Unchecked: Copay Accumulator

The newly released study by The AIDS Institute examines the individual insurance plans available for 2024 in the 32 states and Washington, DC without legislation restricting use of CAAPs.

Overdose Mortality in the United States

This is an interactive map from HepVu that demonstrates overdose mortality in the United States in 2021.