Following up on last week's webinar

Last week, the NIC convened a webinar titled, "Getting Upstream of the Opioid Crisis - The Critical Role of Prevention". Its description reads as follows: "Our next Deeper Dive webinar will focus on the critical importance of “getting upstream” to mo

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NIC Webinar - Getting Upstream of the Opioid Crisis: The Critical Role of Prevention

What does the population you work with look like? Mary Ann Cooney, provided some examples of "Face of the problem", what stood out is the cross over with SocialDeterminants of Health and the role of stigma in understanding root causes of substance u

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San Diego Sues Opioid Manufacturers and Distributors

“Opioid manufacturers have profited handsomely from the human suffering they intentionally inflicted through manipulation and deceit,” Elliott said in a written release." is this the direction need

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NBC News: Opioids claiming more African-American lives as overdoses spread from Rust Belt to East Coast

African-Americans had been spared because they were less likely than whites to be prescribed opioids, but heroin is the deadly equalizer.

Link: htt

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CNN: Opioid epidemic spilling over onto roads, study says

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/health/opioid-traffic-accidents-study/index.html

Excerpt:

(CNN)Patients who are prescribed opioids and the clinicians who prescribe themhave more to be concerned a

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University of Michigan Study | Opioid use in the family may influence adolescents’ opioid risk after surgery

University of Michigan Study

Opioid use in the family may influence adolescents’ opioid risk after surgery

Study: Long-term opioid use by one or more family members was associated to persistent opioid use by adolescents prescribed opioids after common

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Nuns, Teamsters, city government and Vanguard all pressure AmerisourceBergen on opioids

https://www.philly.com/business/opioids-nuns-teamsters-amerisourcebergen-annual-meeting-philadelphia-20190228.html

Excerpt:

CEO Steve Collis received a $1.6 million

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New York Times Opinion: The Opioid Crisis Isn’t White Contrary to media portrayals, overdose deaths are ravaging communities of color.

New York Times Opinion:

The Opioid Crisis Isn’t White

Contrary to media portrayals, overdose deaths are ravaging communities of color.

By Abdullah Shihipar

Mr. Shihipar is a graduate student in public health.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/opin

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FDA takes fresh look at whether opioids are effective for chronic pain

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fda-takes-fresh-look-at-whether-opioids-are-effective-for-chronic-pain/2019/02/25/227a5fe6-3917-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story

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Pain patients on opioids also are getting rescue drug naloxone to prevent overdose

https://www.philly.com/health/narcan-pain-patients-naloxone-pennsylvania-physician-guidlines-20190225.html

Increasingly, pain patients who need high doses of opioids ar

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CNN/JAMA: These states have been hit the hardest by America's opioid epidemic

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/health/opioid-deaths-states-study/index.html

(CNN)While there's early evidence that the explosive rate of opioid deaths has started to sl

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Artist Drops Massive Opioid Spoon at Entrance of Another Sackler-Owned Drug Manufacturer

https://hyperallergic.com/483959/artist-drops-massive-opioid-spoon-at-entrance-of-another-sackler-owned-drug-manufacturer/

Excerpt:

Yesterday, February 7, artist

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PAIN Sackler Storms Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museums for Financial Ties to Opioid Manufacturers

https://hyperallergic.com/484109/pain-sackler-storms-guggenheim-and-metropolitan-museums-for-financial-ties-to-opioid-manufacturers/

Excerpt:

Nan Goldin a

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Bloomberg: How the ‘Worst’ Launch in Pharma History Spurred Opioid Surge

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-13/how-the-worst-launch-in-pharma-history-spurred-opioid-surge

Excerpt:

Kapoor ripped into his underlings, calling it the “worst

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Health Affairs: A Transitioning Epidemic: How The Opioid Crisis Is Driving The Rise In Hepatitis C

Health Affairs: A Transitioning Epidemic: How The Opioid Crisis Is Driving The Rise In Hepatitis C

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05232

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The hepatitis C virus is responsible for more deaths in the United States

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"Deaths of Despair" - Millbank blog about prevention's existence outside of healthcare

“Deaths of Despair” – Prevention for a Growing Crisis

https://www.milbank.org/2019/01/deaths-of-despair-prevention-for-a-growing-crisis/

"...to be effective we must recognize the economic and social equivalents of public health prevention – the opioid

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National Strategy mirrors NIC Playbook on prevention

The Director of the Office of National Drug Control has published the first national strategy for drug control under the Trump administration, and it calls for a 3-pronged approach to drug control--prevention, treatment and making the drugs less acce

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Vox: The opioid epidemic is a crisis, but Trump isn’t treating it like one

Vox: The opioid epidemic is a crisis, but Trump isn’t treating it like one

Trump hasn’t delivered on his promise to seriously confront the opioid epidemic.

By German Lopez @germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2

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PREVENTION: Identifying the Next Drug Epidemic by Testing Municipal Wastewater!

Municipal water testing as an innovative approach to track + measure drug use.

Key Findings:

When used in combination with geospatial mapping and advanced analytics, wastewater-based epidemiology has the potential to help officials predict rather than

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ED-BRIDGE - buprenorphine access

California is working to develop a plan where people with opioid use disorder can access buprehnorphine 24/7.

Not prevention. But an important step in urgently approaching all sides of the opioid epidemic.

Opioid Prevention

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Following up on last week's webinar

NIC Webinar - Getting Upstream of the Opioid Crisis: The Critical Role of Prevention

San Diego Sues Opioid Manufacturers and Distributors

NBC News: Opioids claiming more African-American lives as overdoses spread from Rust Belt to East Coast

NBC News: Opioids claiming more African-American lives as overdoses spread from Rust Belt to East Coast

CNN: Opioid epidemic spilling over onto roads, study says

CNN: Opioid epidemic spilling over onto roads, study says

University of Michigan Study | Opioid use in the family may influence adolescents’ opioid risk after surgery

University of Michigan Study

Opioid use in the family may influence adolescents’ opioid risk after surgery

Nuns, Teamsters, city government and Vanguard all pressure AmerisourceBergen on opioids

Nuns, Teamsters, city government and Vanguard all pressure AmerisourceBergen on opioids

New York Times Opinion: The Opioid Crisis Isn’t White Contrary to media portrayals, overdose deaths are ravaging communities of color.

The Opioid Crisis Isn’t White

FDA takes fresh look at whether opioids are effective for chronic pain

Pain patients on opioids also are getting rescue drug naloxone to prevent overdose

Pain patients on opioids also are getting rescue drug naloxone to prevent overdose

CNN/JAMA: These states have been hit the hardest by America's opioid epidemic

Artist Drops Massive Opioid Spoon at Entrance of Another Sackler-Owned Drug Manufacturer

PAIN Sackler Storms Guggenheim and Metropolitan Museums for Financial Ties to Opioid Manufacturers

Bloomberg: How the ‘Worst’ Launch in Pharma History Spurred Opioid Surge

Health Affairs: A Transitioning Epidemic: How The Opioid Crisis Is Driving The Rise In Hepatitis C

"">Abstract

"Deaths of Despair" - Millbank blog about prevention's existence outside of healthcare

National Strategy mirrors NIC Playbook on prevention

Vox: The opioid epidemic is a crisis, but Trump isn’t treating it like one

Trump hasn’t delivered on his promise to seriously confront the opioid epidemic.

PREVENTION: Identifying the Next Drug Epidemic by Testing Municipal Wastewater!

ED-BRIDGE - buprenorphine access

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