OPIOID SOLUTIONS BIWEEKLY NEWS: JANUARY 20TH – FEBRUARY 2ND

News

• Back Pain Procedure Leads to Opioid Use for Some
  • Featuring: Chad Brummett

• Just 2% of Patients Who Need It Get Anti-Opioid Drug Naloxone
  • Featuring: Allison Lin

• Shared Decision Making Reduces Post-Hysterectomy Opioid Prescribing
  • Featuring: Sawsan As-Sanie, Chad Brummett, Daniel Clauw, Jennifer Waljee, Skinner, Lim, Griffith, Howard, Ceci, Till, Sahara, Vilkins

• Should Addicts Get Repeat Valve Surgeries for Endocarditis?
  • Featuring: Michael Deeb

• There’s More Than One Type of Pain. Scientists Are Learning to Treat Each of Them
  • Featuring: Richard Harris

 

Resources

After Opioid Overdose, Most Young People Aren’t Getting Addiction Treatment (NIH)

Barriers to Medicaid Beneficiaries’ Access to Treatment Medications (GAO)

Challenges in Providing Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Child Welfare Clients in Rural Communities (USDHHS)

Curated Library about Opioid Use for Decision-makers (CLOUD) (The Center for Evidence-based Policy)

Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999–2018 (CDC)

Expanding Access to Community-Based Substance Use Disorder Treatment (CHCS)

Expert Panel: Time to Unleash Drug Treatments for Addiction — Rules limiting buprenorphine, methadone prescribing do more harm than good, report suggests (Medpage)

HHS Guide for Clinicians on the Appropriate Dosage Reduction or Discontinuation of Long-Term Opioid Analgesics (CDC)

New CLOUD Library Offers Curated Opioid Use Resources (Milbank Memorial Fund)

Opioid-Benzo Co-Prescribing Continues, Despite Risks (Medpage)

Opioid Prescribing Among Adults With Disabilities in the United States After the 2014 Federal Hydrocodone Rescheduling Regulation (Public Health Reports)

Opioid Prescribing Behaviors — Prescription Behavior Surveillance System, 11 States, 2010–2016 (CDC)

Opioid Rx Drop When Default EMR Settings Change (Medpage)

Opportunities to Improve Opioid Use Disorder and Infectious Disease Services: Integrating Responses to a Dual Epidemic (The National Academies)

Plavix Efficacy Blunted With Opioid in the Picture (Medpage)