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Combatting the Stigma of Addiction - The Need for a Comprehensive Health System Approach

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Pre-COVID-19, only 10 percent of those with SUDs received treatment, contributing to the 70,000 annual deaths from drug overdose, of which more than two-thirds are opioid-related. In the current context, the opioid crisis is being acutel

Started by Amanda Taylor

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Can EHR Natural Language Processing Detect Opioid Misuse Codes?

Human reviewers could identify roughly 70 percent more patients with an opioid use disorder (OUD) than an EHR algorithm.

Started by Amanda Taylor

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Payer Empowers Grassroots Movement to Tackle Opioids Epidemic

A passion for providing substance abuse care and patient advocacy at Highmark Health has created a movement to empower reform around the opioids epidemic.

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Started by Amanda Taylor

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Opioid Addiction Is 'A Disease Of Isolation,' So Pandemic Puts Recovery At Risk

While staying home may be the safer way to avoid getting and spreading COVID-19, addiction specialists acknowledge Emma's concern: Doing so may increase feelings of depression and anxiety among people in recovery — and those are underlying causes of

Started by Navah Stein

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Association of Medicaid Expansion With Opioid Overdose Mortality in the United States

Importance The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) permits states to expand Medicaid coverage for most low-income adults to 138% of the federal poverty level and requires the provision of mental health and substance use disorder service

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Regional and temporal effects of naloxone access laws on opioid overdose mortality

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Background: Naloxone is a drug that reverses opioid overdose. Naloxone Access Laws (NALs) increase public access to naloxone and have been considered as one promising solution to reducing opioid-related harm. However, previous studies on whet

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States May Soon Have to Provide Medication-Assisted Treatment to Inmates, Here’s How to Fund It

State policymakers on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic understand that treating justice-involved individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) offers a critical opportunity to expand access to treatment. While there is strong evidence that medicati

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Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution in the San Francisco County Jail

People leaving incarceration are at high risk of opioid-related overdose. Overdose fatalities are preventable with administration of naloxone. In response to this risk, overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) programs have been implemente

Started by Navah Stein

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Global Opioids

Global Opioids: As the U.S. fights to undo the damage from the opioid epidemic, pharmaceutical companies are expanding around the world. The Associated Press, supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, is investigating this gl

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State Responses to the Opioid Crisis

This paper focuses on the most common state policy responses to the opioid crisis, dividing them into six broad categories. Within each category we highlight the rationale behind the group of policies within it, discuss the details and support for in

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Why we need bolder action to combat the opioid epidemic

Although the opioid crisis in the US is gaining increased attention, the steps taken to date to combat it are insufficient. Our research suggests that much broader—and bolder—action is required...

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article (11)

Combatting the Stigma of Addiction - The Need for a Comprehensive Health System Approach

Can EHR Natural Language Processing Detect Opioid Misuse Codes?

Payer Empowers Grassroots Movement to Tackle Opioids Epidemic

Opioid Addiction Is 'A Disease Of Isolation,' So Pandemic Puts Recovery At Risk

Association of Medicaid Expansion With Opioid Overdose Mortality in the United States

Regional and temporal effects of naloxone access laws on opioid overdose mortality

States May Soon Have to Provide Medication-Assisted Treatment to Inmates, Here’s How to Fund It

Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution in the San Francisco County Jail

Global Opioids

Global Opioids: As the U.S. fights to undo the damage from the opioid epidemic, pharmaceutical companies are expanding around the world. The Associated Press, supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, is investigating this gl

State Responses to the Opioid Crisis

Why we need bolder action to combat the opioid epidemic

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