News
- How many pills do Americans consume? (Chad Brummett)
- Suicides, often linked to opioids, spike in rural Michigan and among young (Amy Bohnert, Mark Ilgen)
- Unwise and unnecessary: Opioids for wisdom teeth extractions (Calista Harbaugh, Romesh Nalliah)
- FDA Will Require Drug Makers to Research Long-term Opioid Use (Dan Clauw)
- Before Teen Is Prescribed Opioids, Look at Family’s Drug Use (Jen Waljee)
- Family History Linked With Long-Term Opioid Use After Surgery (Jen Waljee, Calista Harbaugh)
- NIOSH Responds to the Opioid Crisis: Vital Information for Workers and Employers
- MHealth Lab Article: Opioid Use in the Family May Influence Adolescents’ Opioid Risk After Surgery
- Opioid lawsuits are bringing big pharma’s secrets into view.
- Facing Lawsuits Over Opioid Epidemic, Purdue Pharma Considers Bankruptcy
- Whitmer, Bloomberg come to Eastpointe to detail $10 million anti-opioid initiative
- Here’s now Michigan should spend Bloomberg’s $10 million to fight opioids
- NFL players spend offseason on Capitol Hill, working on issues from the opioid crisis to brain injuries
- These tech companies aim to cure pain without pills
- Doctors Are Writing Half as Many New Opioid Prescriptions as They Used To, Study Says
Resources
- Wolverine Caucus event: Video link
- Research Brief: Understanding opioid prescribing after surgery
- NEJM Special Article: Initial Opioid Prescriptions among U.S. Commercially Insured Patients, 2012-2017
- National Interoperability Collaborative: The Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook
- Trust for America’s Health Issue Brief: Pain in the Nation Update
- RWJF Health Policy Brief: Medicaid’s Role in Fight the Opioid Epidemic
- NIH Video: Leveraging science to change hearts and minds: addressing the opioid crisis
- JAMA Editorial: Mitigating Health Risks of Prescription Drugs: Lessons From FDA Oversight of Opioid Products
- CMS Informational Bulletin: Medicaid Strategies for Non-Opioid Pharmacologic and Non-Pharmacologic Chronic Pain Management
- Hot training topic: Opioids –NEW FEATURE! All 11 modules now available.
- February issue of the Journal of Urban Health: Special Supplement on Opioid Overdose
- NIDA Article: A Promising Alternative to Opioid Pain Medications
- National Interoperability Collaborative Publication: The Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook
- Simulation of County Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Rates Tool
- National Academy of Medicine’s Ongoing Consensus Studies: Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Acute Pain
- Development of a Protocol to Evaluate the Concomitant Prescribing of Opioid and Benzodiazepine Medications and Veterans Deaths and Suicides
- Examination of the Integration of Opioid and Infectious Disease Prevention Efforts in Select Programs
- Annals of Internal Medicine: Dual Receipt of Prescription Opioids From the Department of Veterans Affairs and Medicare Part D and Prescription Opioid Overdose Death Among Veterans: A Nested Case–Control Study