Opioid Solutions Faculty News for Dec. 10th – 20th

News

• Opioid crisis helps energize leaderships and create partnerships (Chad Brummett, Mike Englesbe, Jennifer Waljee, John Ayanian)
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• 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
  • Determining Whether to Initiate Opioids for Chronic Pain
  • Implementing CDC’s Opioid Prescribing Guideline into Clinical Practice
• 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)