Opioid Solutions Newsletter Archive

News App Aims to Reduce Deaths from Opioid Overdose Featuring: Gabriela Marcu, School of Information “The stakes are life and death:” Addiction treatment’s Covid-19 challenge Featuring: Allison Lin   Resources Docs Can Prescribe Opioids Via Telemedicine, for...

News   Watch the opioid-related Keynote and Flash Science Presentations, and Poster Sessions from the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center's 2020 Inaugural Research Symposium. Keynote: Suicide and Unintentional Overdose Featuring: Amy Bohnert Flash...

News Taking a scalpel to opioid painkiller risks: New studies on surgical opioid prescribing Featuring: Michael Englesbe, Dana Telem, and Jennifer Waljee   Resources DEA Seeks Comment: Dispensing and Administering Controlled Substances for Medication-Assisted...

News Announcing the New Post-Overdose Care in the Emergency Department Section of the Michigan Safer Opioid Prescribing Toolkit The University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center is pleased to announce a new resource for Post-Overdose Care in the Emergency...

News Applications for the U-M Injury Prevention Center summer internship program now open   Resources “Purple Heroin” Found in Upper Peninsula, Van Buren County (Michigan Poison Center) Report: Tracking FY2019 Federal Funding to Combat the Opioid Crisis...

News People struggling with addiction are turning to telehealth during the pandemic — for better and for worse Featuring: Allison Lin   Resources 1-Hour Program Ups Opioid Knowledge for PharmDs (Medpage) Beware of Opioid Scripts After Breast Cancer Treatment...

Did Reformulated OxyContin Really Discourage Abuse? (Medpage) Vital Signs: Characteristics of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids and Stimulants — 24 States and the District of Columbia, January–June 2019 (CDC)

News Drug Overdose Deaths Showed a One-Year Decline in 2018. But There’s More to the Story Featuring: Chad Brummett These Drugs Carry Risks and May Not Help, But Many Dementia Patients Get Them Anyway Featuring: Donovan Maust   Resources Community Health Centers...

News Can Community Members Deliver Naloxone to Reverse Opioid Overdoses — And Do It Faster Than EMS? Featuring: Gabriela Marcu Nearly 1 in 3 Patients with Lupus Use Prescription Opioids for Pain Featuring: Emily Somers The Lookout Project The Lookout Project is a...