OPIOID SOLUTIONS BIWEEKLY NEWS: OCTOBER 28TH – NOVEMBER 10TH

News

Fewer Opioids After Eye Surgery Don’t Mean More Post-Op Pain (Brigham Health)
Featuring: Maria Woodward

Free new MOOC aims to educate all about opioid crisis (The University Record)
Featuring: Karen Farris

Gabapentinoids appear increasingly to be prescribed, off-label, for cancer pain (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Featuring: Chris Friese and Alex Fauer

Resources

Addressing a Crisis: Cross-Sector Strategies to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use and Suicide (October 2019)
(Trust for America’s Health)

Arizona’s Drug Epidemic: Understanding a Pharmacist’s Roles and Responsibilities (MATFORCE)

FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

Helping People With Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder During Disasters (October 2019) (SAMHSA)

Needs Assessment Methodologies in Determining Treatment Capacity for Substance Use Disorders: Final Report (USDHHS)

Medicaid: Opioid Use Disorder Services for Pregnant and Postpartum Women, and Children (U.S. Government Accountability Office)

Obstetric Delivery Inpatient Stays Involving Substance Use Disorders and Related Clinical Outcomes, 2016
(HCUP)

Racial/Ethnic and Age Group Differences in Opioid and Synthetic Opioid–Involved Overdose Deaths Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years in Metropolitan Areas — United States, 2015–2017 (CDC)

SORH Response to the National Substance Use Disorder Crisis (October 2019) (NOSORH)

Substance Use Disorder: Prevalence of Recovery Homes, and Selected States’ Investigations and Oversight (U.S. Government Accountability Office)

The Drug Overdose Epidemic Affects All Communities (NIH)

The Real Cost Of The Opioid Epidemic: An Estimated $179 Billion In Just One Year (NPR)