Publications Addiction at Any Cost: Philip Morris International Uncovered STOP (Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products) has published new analyses that show Philip Morris International is addicting new users to its IQOS product because its cigarette business is under threat, not because it solely wants smokers to quit. According to “Addiction at Any Cost: Philip Morris International Uncovered,” PMI also continues marketing its cigarettes to young people and undermining global progress to reduce smoking.
Publications Vital Strategies and Partners Organize Training for Criminal Defense Lawyers to Fight Drug Overdose Homicide Laws The Overdose Prevention Program partnered with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Health in Justice Action Lab, and other stakeholders to deliver a first-of-its-kind training on criminal defense against drug overdose homicide cases in Pennsylvania. The curriculum and presentation materials from the training are available, and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers has a useful resource page on drug overdose homicide.
Publications Over-the-counter naloxone needed to save lives in the United States The effects of opioid overdose can be dramatically reduced through increased access to the opioid antagonist naloxone. But naloxone is too often unavailable when and where it is most needed, partly due to its continued status as a prescription medication. This commentary argues that the Food and Drug Administration should reclassify naloxone from prescription-only to over-the-counter status.
Publications Scaling Up Effective Treatment of Hypertension This article summarizes lessons learned in the first 2 years of the Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) hypertension management program, operated in coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners.
Publications Fixed-dose combination antihypertensive medications Of the approximately 1.4 billion people with hypertension worldwide, only about one in seven has their blood pressure successfully treated and adequately controlled.
Publications Three Public Health Interventions Could Save 94 Million Lives in 25 Years Preventable noncommunicable diseases, mostly cardiovascular diseases, are responsible for 38 million deaths annually. A few well-documented interventions have the potential to prevent many of these deaths, but a large proportion of the population in need does not have access to these interventions.
Publications Equity First: Conceptualizing a Normative Framework To Assess the Role of Preemption in Public Health This article highlights how preemption—the ability of a higher level of government to limit the regulatory power of a lower level of government—has both created and alleviated health inequities. It proposes the development of an equity-first preemption framework to establish evidence-based criteria for assessing when preemption will enhance or inhibit equity and a research agenda for developing the evidence necessary to inform and operationalize the framework.
Publications Brochure: Overdose Prevention Program There is an overdose epidemic in the United States. More than 93,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a single year in the United States. Every overdose death is preventable.
Publications Lessons learned in legal reform and notification of vital events: experiences from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative This article shares lessons learned through implementing the Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative, which provides technical support to improve civil registration and vital statistics systems. The article focuses on two important aspects of the Initiative's work in multiple countries and cities: legal and regulatory review and reform, and notification of vital events.
Publications Paraphernalia Laws, Criminalizing Possession and Distribution of Items Used to Consume Illicit Drugs, and Injection-Related Harm The U.S. is in the grip of an unprecedented epidemic of drug-related harm. Making it easier for people who inject drugs to legally access clean, new syringes and fentanyl test strips can reduce the risk of disease transmission and fatal overdose. State paraphernalia laws prohibiting the possession of syringes and fentanyl test strips should be repealed in order to reduce overdose death and related harms.