News
- Opioid crisis helps energize leaderships and create partnerships (Chad Brummett, Mike Englesbe, Jennifer Waljee, John Ayanian)
- NSAIDs can play major role in pre- and postoperative hysterectomy pain (Sawan As-Sanie)
- Use of Benzodiazepines Up, Despite Scrutiny (Donovan Maust)
- Opioids don’t work well, study finds (Mike Englesbe)
- Collaborative breakthroughs in the nationwide opioid epidemic (featured in the Research Annual Report 2018 University of Michigan Medical School) (Mike Englesbe, Ryan Howard, Jay Lee)
- Rewriting the Script: Experts aim to improve pain management and reduce opioid-related harm (Paul Hilliard, Eric Scott, Katie Barwig)
- IHPI Policy Sprints – Projects Launched Fall 2018: Design and Implementation Challenges of Opioid Prescribing Limits for Acute Pain (Kao-Ping Chua)
- In case you missed it: The Wrap highlights team behind rewrite the script (Paul Hilliard, Eric Scott, Katie Barwig)
- NIH needs your innovative research ideas through our newly announced NIH HEAL initiative funding opportunities
- Many older adults don’t take prescribed antidepressants (Donovan Maust)
- Opioids Don’t Really Do That Much for Chronic Pain, Meta-Analysis Finds
- A Doctor’s Guide to What to Read on the Opioid Crisis
- For Teens: Vaping Up, Opioid and Alcohol Use Down
- State police want access to prescription drug monitoring system to fight opioid crisis
- Buprenorphine-Naloxone Cost-Effective for Opioid Use Disorder
Resources
- For New Governors: Snapshot of Major Federal Opioid Funding by State
- S. Preventive Services Task Force – Draft Research Plan for Prevention of Opioid Use Disorder: Interventions
- This opportunity for public comment expires on January 16, 2019 at 8:00 PM EST
- NEJM: Vote in Popular Clinical Decisions: Medical Marijuana for Chronic Pain
- AHRQ Stats: Opioid-Related Inpatient Stays and Emergency Department Visits Among Patients Aged 65 Years and Older, 2010 and 2015
- Draft Research Plan for Prevention of Opioid Use Disorder: Interventions
- New Opioid Trainings for Providers: Initiating Opioid Therapy and Implementing the CDC Guideline
- Drug, Opioid-Involved, and Heroin-Involved Overdose Deaths Among American Indians and Alaska Natives — Washington, 1999–2015
- Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths: United States, 2011–2016 (December 2018)