People Who Inject Drugs

6-10-2020The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) has authorized its Minority AIDS Initiati…

5-27-2020The HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) has launched an effort led by the 10 Regional Health Administrators (RHAs) to support the expansion …

4-8-2020Webinar series helps educate about the critical role of Syringe Services Programs in addressing the convergence of infectious disease and the opioid epidemic.

1-31-2020The nation is experiencing a public health crisis involving the misuse of prescription opioid pain relievers as well as heroin and fentanyl. This misuse has led…

12-12-2019Technical assistance slide set helps educate substance use disorder treatment providers on their critical role in diagnosing and treating those with HCV and HIV…

11-8-2019Opioid and drug misuse has profound economic and health consequences on Americans, including a rise in certain infectious diseases throughout our nation.

7-18-2019The HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health will host a webinar on July 30: Syringe Service Programs – A Critical Public Health Intervention.

6-26-2019Syringe services programs are part of the work to redress the public health crisis formed by the intersection of opioids and infectious disease. 

6-5-2019Today we recognize that, 38 years ago, the CDC published the first report of what would come to be known as the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

5-24-2019CDC is releasing materials for use by health departments that provide information on the critical role of SSPs in prevention and treatment.