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Breaking the stigma: The importance of listening to buprenorphine patients

Odyssey House President and CEO Dr. Peter Provet comments on how a recent article in the New York Times (“An Effective Treatment for Opioid Addiction Exists. Why Isn’t It Used More?”, February 16, 2025) on buprenorphine and stigma. The recent New York Times Magazine article on buprenorphine…

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New Approaches to the Drug Overdose Crisis

In today’s New York Times, Dr. Peter Provet, Odyssey House President & CEO, responds to a recent article [“One Year Inside a Radical New Approach to America’s Overdose Crisis,” by Jeneen Interlandi (Opinion, Feb. 26)], and accompanying editorial [“America Has…

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This will not stand.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr., April 16, 1963   As we witnessed the horrific death of Mr. George Floyd, killed on the streets of Minneapolis by a white police officer while fellow officers looked on, we were all speechless in shock, sadness, and…

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