News
- Pets Help Take Our Minds Off Pain (Mary Janevic, Cathleen Connell)
- Adults Under 50 with Hearing Loss May Have Higher Risk of Substance Use (Michael McKee)
- Special Bag Helps Patients Get Rid of Unused Opioids (Medical School) (Chad Brummett)
- Interim Buprenorphine Alleviates Psychiatric Symptoms in Waitlisted OUD Patients
- Methadone Maintenance Treatment During Incarceration Has Long-Term Benefits
- Addressing the Opioid Crisis: Medication-Assisted Treatment at Health Care for the Homeless Programs
- Prescription drugs on demand? “Restaurant-menu medicine” raises concerns
- Maryland Lawmakers Try to Rein in Rx Drug Prices
- CVS expands same-day prescription delivery nationwide
- Opioid Maker Charged With Fraud In Marketing Drug As Less Prone To Abuse
- The Health 202: Drug maker accuses FDA of hampering its medication for opioid treatment
- Pain-care specialist agrees to testify against Purdue and other Opioid drugmakers
- Whitmer: Opioids ‘greatest health crisis of lifetime’
Resources
- NEJM Correspondence: Understanding the Link among Opioid Use, Overdose, and Suicide (Amy Bohnert, Mark Ilgen)
- Recommendations to the Indian Health Service on American Indian/Alaska Native Pregnant Women and Women of Childbearing Age with Opioid Use Disorder (March 2019)
- NEJM Special Article: Initial Opioid Prescriptions among U.S. Commercially Insured Patients, 2012-2017
- New Publication –The Role of Nonpharmacological Approaches to Pain Management: Proceedings of a Workshop
- Notes from the Field: Unintentional Drug Overdose Deaths with Kratom Detected — 27 States, July 2016–December 2017
- An Overview of Michigan’s Efforts in Combating the Opioid Epidemic
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives
- Examination of the Integration of Opioid and Infectious Disease Prevention Efforts in Select Programs
- New Video Available on the Dangers of Illicit Drugs for First Responders
- New Research from External Partners Available on NIOSH Opioids Webpage
- Tracking Federal Funding to Combat the Opioid Crisis (March 2019)
- The brain in pain – Science Highlight