802 - Safer Supply: A Novel Approach to Reducing Overdose Deaths

About this episode:

Safer supply is a harm reduction tool that involves making regulated pharmaceuticals available for people who use drugs. In today's episode: The safer supply model explained, and why some experts are saying it is time to give it a try.

Guests:

Becky Genberg is an epidemiologist studying the intersection substance use and infectious diseases.

Danielle German studies drug use and harm reduction.

Host:

Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Show links and related content:

• It's not just opioids. New drugs make it harder to fight Baltimore's overdose crisis—The Baltimore Banner

• The New Federal Regulations Aimed At Making Methadone More Accessible—And Less Stigmatizing—Public Health On Call (April, 2024)

• In Rural Maryland Counties, Communities Fight Back Against the Opioid Crisis—Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine (2018)