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University of Michigan researchers from a wide range of disciplines are working together to formulate and answer critical questions about opioids. These collaborative efforts have placed U-M at the forefront of opioid research.
Cost may not keep people from filling opioid addiction treatment prescriptions
Only a small percentage of buprenorphine prescriptions go unfilled, even when patients have to pay more out of pocket, suggesting need to remove other barriers to continuous prescriptions. When people get a prescription for the opioid addiction medication called...
High out-of-pocket costs may be barrier to filling naloxone prescriptions, study shows
Patients are less likely to fill prescriptions for naloxone when they face increases in out-of-pocket costs, according to research by the University of Michigan. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study utilized data from a national...
Digital Contingency Management Resource – Key Takeaways
Digital Contingency Management (CM) is an evidence-based tool implemented to improve addiction outcomes and promote health equity among people with opioid and other substance use disorders. Opioid Research Institute faculty affiliate members Drs. Anne Fernandez and...
Media Mention: Michigan researchers create a new tool to aid in observing interactions within neuronal signals
Researchers at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute have created a tool that aids in discovering how neuronal signals are utilized by neurons, which they announced in an article published April 22. The new tool called a SPOTIT, or a Single-chain...
Faculty Feature: Six research faculty members recognized with OVPR awards
The Office of the Vice President for Research will honor six research faculty members from across the University of Michigan for their significant contributions and leadership in fields ranging from firearm injury prevention and multi-scale computation to Earth remote...
U-M partners with Safe RX to provide locking pill vials to community organizations
Throughout 2023, the University of Michigan's Overdose Prevention Engagement Network (OPEN) began distributing Safe Rx Locking Pill Vials (LPVs) to conference attendees as a way to promote safe storage of medications. It became clear very quickly that there was a...
Media Mention: Cannabis and psychedelics: stigmatized substances or powerful therapeutics?
Dr. Kevin Boehnke talks about cannabis, psychedelics, and the increasing body of evidence for their legitimization as therapeutics. Listen to the podcast episode
Media Mention: Addiction is a lifelong disease and not a moral failing
Rethinking addiction: Dr. Chad Brummett discusses how the opioid epidemic has opened up research opportunities to better manage these powerful drugs, including efforts to use data to improve clinical care. Listen to the podcast episode
Faculty Feature: Six faculty members elected to National Academy of Sciences
Six University of Michigan professors are among 120 new members inducted into the National Academy of Sciences for distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Twenty-four international members also were recognized. Among the U-M inductees is Dr....
It’s easier now to treat opioid addiction with medication – but use has changed little
Abrupt policy shift removed a unique barrier to prescribing buprenorphine, but didn’t lead to a sharp rise in prescribing by the end of the first year. For years, even as opioid overdose deaths dramatically increased, doctors and other prescribers in the United States...