{"id":40417,"date":"2025-11-29T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=40417"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:03:43","slug":"sullins-says-harm-reduction-is-key-to-curbing-opioid-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/sullins-says-harm-reduction-is-key-to-curbing-opioid-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sullins says harm reduction is key to curbing opioid crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an opinion piece appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/harm-reduction-programs-rural-sc-opioid-crisis\/article_439ed643-1486-4c74-b77f-c03275b33d75.html\">The Post and Courier<\/a>, Josh Sullins, a student in Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/majors-minors-programs\/community-engaged-medicine-masters\/\">Master of Science in community engaged medicine<\/a> program, explains why harm reduction is the best path forward for tackling he nation&#8217;s opioid crisis. Sullins focuses on rural America and the circumstances that make substance use disorder particularly deadly such as proximity to hospitals and a lack of access to overdose-reversing naloxone. He writes, &#8220;South Carolina must act now. That means fully legalizing syringe service programs, funding mobile harm-reduction units and equipping every first responder \u2014 from police to firefighters to pastors \u2014 with naloxone. It means treating addiction as a health crisis, not a moral one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A subscription may be required to access the content. Furman ID holders can view the full article through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Post and Courier, Furman master&#8217;s student Josh Sullins advocates for harm-reduction strategies for attacking the nation&#8217;s opioid crisis, especially in rural America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":40418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,43,6,3498,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-engaged-medicine","category-graduate-studies","category-in-the-news","category-innovation-lab","category-the-post-and-courier"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40420,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40417\/revisions\/40420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}