Study Shows Supportive Housing Offers High-Impact, Cost-Effective Response to Homelessness and Opioid Use

Hospice Northwest receives support to help unhoused people receive palliative care

Hospice Northwest is being recognized for a program that helps people experiencing homelessness have better access to palliative care. Here's how the Thunder Bay, Ont., organization is supporting unhoused individuals and how a recent funding boost is sustaining the program for the next fiscal year.

Study shows supportive housing offers high-impact, cost-effective response to homelessness and opioid use

Homelessness and opioid use disorder are two widespread public health problems in the United States. Providing housing and supportive services, without requiring drug treatment, is a surprisingly cost-effective approach to helping unhoused people with opioid use disorder, Stanford researchers found in a new study in JAMA Network Open.

Supportive housing offers high-impact, cost-effective response to homelessness and opioid use

A new study shows that providing housing without requiring prior drug treatment produces major public health gains and cost savings.