Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

Collective member Abdullah Shihipar spoke to Governing about the drop in overdose deaths and why funding cuts could interrupt that progress.

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Earlier this month, Professor Brandon Marshall spoke to the Hartford Courant about overdose prevention centers.

“They are highly effective in other countries in communities where there is a very high level of overdose risk,” he said.

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Doctoral candidate Leah Shaw and co-authors wrote a blog post a few weeks ago to accompany their study on Rhode Island's Harm Reduction vending machines. They found that these were used significantly on the weekends (30%) and outside regular business hours (50%).

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Hey there. Today was terrible. I’m grieving for all who will get hurt, sick and die from what the #GOP has done. But I remember dark days in the past during the AIDS epidemic in the US in the 80s, in South Africa in the 2000s. Things looked bleak then. Though me and my friends would be dead. 1/

Our information based resource on overdose prevention centers - opcinfo.org - is now available in Chinese and Spanish. With the exception of legislative updates & the literature database, the website and its materials are available in these languages. Use the menu to switch between languages.

We have created a set of slides that explains how NIH works aka how biomedical science is funded in the United States. Enter our game where you "play" as a budding young scientist who is looking to get a grant studying opioid use disorder funded -- will he get it funded? Click through!

Tomorrow (Tues, June 10) at 10AM ET, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will be testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the NIH budget. 1/

“Ian Morgan, a postdoctoral fellow with the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, also signed… “We have a saying in basic science,” he said. “You go and become a physician if you want to treat thousands of patients. You go and become a researcher if you want to save billions of patients.”

"Boy, has it been a learning curve, because not a lot of people navigate a termination at all in their careers, let alone for their first grant." — BSHS PhD student Patrick Kelly discusses his grant cancellation, its impact on his work, and on the populations he serves defector.com/an-interview...

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We have created a set of slides that explains how NIH works aka how biomedical science is funded in the United States. Enter our game where you "play" as a budding young scientist who is looking to get a grant studying opioid use disorder funded -- will he get it funded? Click through!

The prevention & response investment that helped lower overdose deaths last year is at risk Abdullah Shihipar MPH'20 warns: "As Congress debates the proposed federal budget, it’s important that we don’t take recent progress for granted." @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/figh...

It's time to talk about medicaid and substance use and how cuts to care will impact people's ability to access care and treatment.

Collective members Professor Brandon Marshall and Abdullah Shihipar wrote more about this in an article for The New Republic, warning about the consequences cuts would have on tackling the overdose crisis.

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This was echoed by more than 300 experts in the addictions and substance use field who wrote a letter to Congress warning about the impacts cuts to HHS and Medicaid would have.

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This is all happening as overdose deaths finally decline.

“We can’t mistake this progress for victory. Sustained investment is essential if we want to build on this momentum instead of backsliding.” Professor Alex Macmadu told the WSJ.

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Once again - 8.6 million people could lose their care. That's bound to include thousands, if not millions of people who access substance use treatment.

People on Medicaid are at higher risk of overdosing than other groups (Medicaid being a proxy for poverty) — things are fragile. Pushing people off their care will only increase the risk of overdose and overdose death.

Despite this, only 55% of people with a SUD on Medicaid get care. This tells us that we need to improve access to treatment — that can’t happen if people are being thrown off their insurance.

Medicaid covers a vast majority of people who are enrolled in treatment for substance use disorder — 93% of claims for treatment were covered by Medicaid according to a recent analysis of national claims data.

Currently, Congress is considering a bill that would slash Medicaid by billions of dollars. This would result in 8.6 million people losing their care. Medicaid is a government health insurance plan provides health insurance for low income people.