Family and friends of those with opioid use disorder could soon have an intervention tool for them to help loved ones.
Wayne State University Assistant Professor Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences Erin Fanning Madden, Ph.D., M.P.H., is co-leading the “Developing and Evaluating the Concerned Caregivers Education for Resource Navigation (ConCERN) Intervention for Preventing Overdose” project, a new five-year study supported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, to develop and test a mobile intervention for friends and family members of people with opioid use disorder. She is the co-principal investigator with University of Michigan researcher, Pooja Lagisetty, M.D. The study will use a clinical trial to test the mobile intervention with the friends/family of people who recently experienced an opioid overdose.