About The POINTS Study
Study Aims
Preventing Overdoses Involving Stimulants (POINTS) is a CDC-funded grant (R01CE003353) that involved surveys and interviews with people who use stimulants (e.g., cocaine) in greater Providence, Rhode Island (RI) and three Massachusetts (MA) cities (Brockton, Lawrence, and Lynn) - areas that have been disproportionately impacted by fatal stimulant and opioid-involved overdoses. POINTS also involved testing the MA and RI drug supply and assembled local stakeholders from the overdose prevention and response continuum to identify strategies to address the rise in stimulant and opioid-involved overdoses.
Interim Findings
Please click on the icon to the left to access a summary sheet of our work in the Greater Providence, RI region.
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Please click on the icon to the right to access a summary sheet presenting an overview of our work at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. --->
Please click on the icon to the left to access a poster of some of our work in the Rhode Island Department of Corrections presented at the Brown University School of Public Health Research Day.
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Please click on the icon to the right to access an English version of our summary sheet of our work in Lynn, MA --->
Please click on the icon to the right to access a Spanish version of the Lynn, MA summary sheet --->
Please click on the icon to the right to access our interim findings on the POINTS digital repository.
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Recent Media
Check Out Recent Media Coverage
NPR: Lynn Arditi
March 11, 2024
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More people who use cocaine in Rhode Island are dying of overdoses
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Our Team
Interested in learning more or have ideas about how to extend this work into action?
Please feel free to contact us at:
Jaclyn White Hughto, PhD, MPH | Brown University School of Public Health | Jaclyn_Hughto@Brown.edu
Traci Green, PhD, MSc | Brandeis University | TraciGreen@Brandeis.edu
Jody Rich, MD, MPH | Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University | Jrich@LifeSpan.org