OPIOID SOLUTIONS BIWEEKLY NEWS: SEPTEMBER 16TH – SEPTEMBER 29TH

News

An Approach to Evaluate the Effects of Concomitant Prescribing of Opioids and Benzodiazepines on Veterans Deaths and Suicides (The National Academies)

Featuring: Amy Bohnert

 

Old Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet? Here’s What to Do with Them (Michigan Health)

Featuring: Michigan OPEN

 

Prescription drug misuse related to later substance use disorders (U-M Office of the Vice President for Communications)

Featuring: Sean McCabe

 

UM-Flint program responds to opioid crisis (MFlint NOW)

 

Resources

FDA Guidance on New Opioids Roasted at Hearing (MEDPAGE)

National Roadmap on State-Level Efforts to End the Opioid Epidemic (AMA)

Opioid Epidemic in the United States: Empirical Trends, and A Literature Review of Social Determinants and Epidemiological, Pain Management, and Treatment Patterns (IJMA)

Reducing Pain Patients’ Opioid Doses an Ongoing Challenge (MEDPAGE)

Science & Tech Spotlight: Opioid Vaccines (U.S. Government Accountability Office Report)

Short-Duration Opioid Protocol Feasible for Tonsillectomy (MEDPAGE)

Statement on continued efforts to increase availability of all forms of naloxone to help reduce opioid overdose deaths (USDA)

Suicide Deaths Are a Major Component of the Opioid Crisis that Must Be Addressed (NIH)