News
- On Wednesday, November 20, more than 100 emergency medicine professionals from across Michigan gathered at the Opioid Overdose Prevention: Emergency Care of the Post-Overdose Patient Fall Summit. This summit facilitated discussion among stakeholders on best practices and protocol development of post-opioid overdose care in the emergency department, with a specific focus on naloxone distribution. The summit – hosted by The University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center, The Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network, and The Michigan Emergency Department Improvement Collaborative – featured talks by Joneigh S. Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP, Elizabeth A. Samuels, MD, MPH, MHS, and Thomas L. Simmer, MD.
- Combatting the Opioid Crisis with Research and Education
- Featuring: Karen Farris, Matthew Davis, Emily Somers, and Rebecca Cunningham
- Michigan finds some success fighting opiate crisis on front line: emergency rooms
- Featuring: Carrie Rheingans
- The ‘Most Common Disease You’ve Never Heard Of’ is being handled with dangerous drugs
- Featuring: Sawsan As-Sanie
- U-M, MDHHS launch one-stop website to guide safe pain treatment across Michigan and beyond
- Featuring: Eve Losman, Patrick Carter, and Quyen Ngo
- University of Michigan professor developing pain-relieving device as opioid alternative
- Featuring: Scott Lempka
Resources
SOS is an opioid overdose surveillance system created through a partnership between the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center and Michigan High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA). The system provides near real-time mapping of suspected non-fatal and fatal overdose cases, as well as demographic briefs to authorized public health and public safety stakeholders across the state of Michigan. SOS informs data-driven opioid overdose prevention and response efforts with the goal of reducing overdose injuries and deaths. To learn more or request access, visit https://injurycenter.umich.edu/opioid-surveillance/
Cautionary Data on Rapid Opioid Tapering (Medpage)
Factors that Influence Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment (National Council for Behavioral Health)
Interpersonal Violence Syndemics and Co-Occurring Epidemics: Preventing Violence in the Context of Opioid Misuse, Suicide, Social Disparities, and HIV: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief (The National Academies)
Mind-Body Therapies for Opioid-Treated Pain A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (JAMA Internal Medicine)
Opioid Use Disorder among Medicaid Enrollees: Snapshot of the Epidemic and State Responses (KFF)
Overdose deaths decrease slightly in 2018, the first decline in six years (MDHHS)
Red Signal Report — Opioids (Coverys)
The Opioid Hydra: Understanding Overdose Mortality Epidemics and Syndemics Across the Rural-Urban Continuum (Rural Sociology)