Opioid Solutions Faculty News for April 29th – May 12th

News

• Stark racial, financial divides found in opioid addiction treatment (Pooja Lagisetty, Donovan Maust, Amy Bohnert, Michael Clay)
• Fighting the opioid epidemic with new knowledge: U-M teams up with Harvard, National Academy of Medicine (Rebecca Cunningham, Chad Brummett)
• ‘That’s a scary moment’: how that first prescription in hospital fueled an opioid epidemic (Chad Brummett)
• Michigan counties struggle to meet need for opioid treatment (Amy Bohnert, Huda Akil)
• Understanding Opioid Prescribing after Surgery  (Chad Brummett, Michael Englesbe, Jennifer Waljee, Amy Bohnert, Darrell (Skip) Campbell, Jenna Goesling, Brahmajee Nallamothu, Romesh Nalliah)
• Real Pain Relief, Now! (Daniel Clauw, Jill Schneiderhan)
• Mia Woodward, MD: Opioid Prescribing Post-Corneal Surgery (Mia Woodward)
• How Elizabeth Warren Tackles The Opioid Epidemic In Her Latest Policy Plan (Erin Bonar)
• Opioid addiction drug going mostly to whites, even as black death rate rises (Pooja Lagisetty)
• FDA approves first generic naloxone nasal spray to treat opioid overdose
• PEW: New Naloxone Laws Seek to Prevent Opioid Overdoses
• United States Census: The Opioid Crisis and Grandparents Raising Children
• Over 100 Organizations Join the NAM in Countering the Opioid Epidemic
• Opioid prescription management for pediatric patients with postoperative pain
• CDC Advises Against Misapplication of the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
• Former Purdue Pharma president called addicted people ‘victimizers’ in emails
• Desperate to prevent opioid overdoses, states urge greater prescription of naloxone
• Cocaine deaths up in U.S. and opioids are a big part of it, according to CDC report

Resources

• The Role of Nonpharmacological Approaches to Pain Management: Proceedings of a Workshop
•  Meeting recording and slides now available! Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
• Pain Management for People with Serious Illness in the Context of the Opioid Use Disorder Epidemic: Proceedings of a Workshop
• CDC —Partnering Together to Prevent Overdose
• Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Cocaine and Psychostimulants with Abuse Potential — United States, 2003–2017
• Health effects from unintentional occupational exposure to opioids among law enforcement officers: Two case investigations
• NAM: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives