News
- More research needed to understand benefits, harms of cannabis for pain (Mark Ilgen)
- Opioid Addiction: Meeting the Need for Treatment in Michigan (Amy Bohnert, Jennifer Erb-Donward, Thomas Ivacko)
- Michigan counties struggle to meet need for opioid treatment (Tom Ivacko)
- Opioid addiction: Michigan counties struggle to meet the need for treatment (Amy Bohnert, Huda Akil)
- MI Senate bills would allow librarians to administer Narcan (cites Amy Bohnert, Huda Akil Report above)
- Opioid doctor and pharmacy ‘shoppers’ may also shop at home, U-M study suggests (Kao-Ping Chua, Chad Brummett, Amy Bohnert, Lisa Prosser)
- Pharma-to-doc marketing a vulnerability in opioid fight: Harvard-Michigan summit on issue explores addiction, policy (President Mark Schlissel, Chad Brummett, Barbara McQuade)
- University of Michigan, Harvard team up to tackle opioid crisis (Barbara McQuade, Rebecca Haffajee)
- Legitimate opioid prescriptions increase risk for drug users who doctor shop (Kao-Ping Chua)
- HHS Establishing Interdepartmental Substance Use Disorders Coordinating Committee, Seeking Member Nominations
- Voluntary Medicare Drug Management Program to Control Misuse
- Rapid Opioid Cutoff Is Risk Too, Feds Warn
- In Medicaid Expansion States, More People Had Access to Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug
- Opioid Rapid Response Teams
- Easier Access to Naloxone Linked to Fewer Opioid Deaths
- Strategies for non-opioid pain management in children
Resources
- ASAM 50th Annual Conference – Innovations in Addiction Medicine and Science – 2019
- On-Demand Available Now (85 CME)
- How Naloxone Saves Lives
- The Opioid Crisis: Next Steps
- An Opioid Prescribing Interactive Online Training Series for Providers
- Recent CDC Articles and Publications
- Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Cocaine and Psychostimulants with Abuse Potential – United States, 2003-2017
- Suspected Heroin Overdose in U.S. Emergency Departments (2017-2018)
- Evaluation of a Safer Opioid Prescribing Protocol (SOPP) for Patients Being Discharged from a Trauma Service
- CDC Advises Against Misapplication of the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
- New NIOSH Science Blog: Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder