News MHealthy resources can help prevent opioid misuse (The University Record) Michigan surgeons offered more money to limit opioids for pain (Bridge) Featuring: Mike Englesbe Simple Conversations Can Reduce Opioid Prescriptions After Hysterectomy (Health News Digest)...
News Doctors can change opioid prescribing habits, but progress comes in small doses (Los Angeles Times) Featuring: Chad Brummett & Rebecca Haffajee Kids Getting Too Many Opioids After Tonsillectomy (U.S. News) Featuring: Kao-Ping Chua Many Doctors...
News 24 Michigan counties are at “high-risk” in the national opioid epidemic (Michigan Radio) Featuring: Rebecca Haffajee 40% of Doctors Refuse New Chronic Pain Patients Using Opioids (U.S. News & World Report) Featuring: Pooja A. Lagisetty...
News How an American billionaire predicted – and then profited from – an Oxycontin ‘prescription blizzard’ (Chad Brummett, Rebecca Haffajee) Inpatient Opioids Influence At-Home Use (Amy Bohnert) Nonwhite patients get less pain relief in U.S. emergency rooms (Lisa...
News More research needed to understand benefits, harms of cannabis for pain (Mark Ilgen) Opioid Addiction: Meeting the Need for Treatment in Michigan (Amy Bohnert, Jennifer Erb-Donward, Thomas Ivacko) Michigan counties struggle to meet need for opioid treatment (Tom...
News Fentanyl: 12 questions about the hidden drug that’s killing people every day (Christopher Blazes) Older Adults’ Perceptions Of Opioid-Related Policies and What They Mean For Pain Treatment (Calista Harbaugh, Preeti Malani, Rebecca Haffajee, Jennifer Waljee)...
News Hearing loss before 50 may raise drug abuse risk (Michael McKee, Mark Ilgen, Michelle Meade, Philip Zazove) To keep leftover opioids out of harm’s way, give surgery patients special disposal bags, U-M study shows (Chad Brummett, Jennifer Waljee, Mike Englesbe)...
News Opioid crisis helps energize leaderships and create partnerships (Chad Brummett, Mike Englesbe, Jennifer Waljee, John Ayanian) Video/transcript NSAIDs can play major role in pre- and postoperative hysterectomy pain (Sawan As-Sanie) Use of Benzodiazepines Up,...
Doling Out Pain Pills Post-Surgery: An Ingrown Toenail Not The Same As A Bypass (Chad Brummett) Four States With Robust Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Reduced Opioid Dosages or These 4 states saw the biggest drop in opioid prescriptions or 4 U.S. states beat...
MICHIGAN NEWS RELEASE (By Nardy Baeza Bickel) May 3, 2018 – More funding is needed to address the opioid epidemic that is projected to cost the United States economy $200 billion by 2020, a University of Michigan researcher says. In an article published in JAMA...
