About 48,000 US drug overdose deaths involved opioids in 2017. Naloxone is a life-saving medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Pharmacists and other healthcare providers play a critical role in ensuring patients receive nalox
Read more…Years ago, when I worked as a certified nurse-midwife in a federally qualified health center in the South Bronx in New York City, I worried: Was I actually helping the women that I cared for?
While I provided prenatal, gynecological, and primary care
Context: Counties across the United States must contend with multiple, intertwined threats and costs that defy simple solutions. Decision makers face the necessary but difficult task of prioritizing those interventions with the greatest potential to
Read more…The U.S. Department of Health andHuman Services (HHS) recognizes that faith-and community-based partners eagerly andwillingly step in to meet the needs of their communities...This HHS Partnership Center toolkit is segmented into seven key areas that
Read more…People who have been incarcerated are approximately 100 times more likely to die by overdose in the first two weeks after their release than the general public. Despite high rates of opioid use disorder among justice-involved individuals, evidence-ba
Read more…This framework recognizes the critical role of public health leaders and partners in carrying out a comprehensive, cross-sector response to the opioid crisis. With effective leadership and cross-sector partnerships, states and territories can leverag
Read more…The drug crisis our country faces today is unprecedented. It has evolved over the past several decades and has steadily worsened with time. Every state and county, and every socioeconomic group in our country, is directly affected by the negative con
Read more…This HCUP Fast Stats interactive heat map visualizes the rate of births diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) by State. Each State's NAS rate is reported per 1,000 newborn hospitalizations. States are color-coded in quintiles using 2015 a
Read more…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
Read more…In response to the growing opioid crisis in the United States, OCLC—a global library cooperative— and the Public Library Association (PLA) sought to better understand how public libraries are responding to the opioid crisis locally with partners. Eig
Read more…Z codes are a subset of ICD-10-CM codes, used as reason codes to capture “factors that influence health status and contact with health services.” They apply to all health care settings and must be accompanied by any performed procedure codes
This stud
Read more…For all the national media attention it has attracted, the opioid crisis remains a local problem, demanding that local governments try innovative strategies to fit their communities’ unique needs. Many do this through the Opioid Mapping Initiative (O
Read more…The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) presents a comprehensive report which documents 57 federally funded opioid programs in the fiscal years 2017 and 2018. The programs span prevention, treatment and recovery efforts. The objective of this document is
Read more…Recorded presentations, panels and resources from the University of Michigan - Harvard University Summit.
Read more…The dashboards and data available through this application are the result of ongoing collaboration between the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), Department of Justice, and the
Read more…Opioid use for managing pain and non-medical purposes has reached epidemic proportions and has created a national crisis that causes staggering mortality, costs, and shattered lives. Patients and care teams could better address these challenges throu
Read more…Effective interventions for OUD, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT), do exist, and healthy outcomes can occur for both the mother and the infant, but only when healthcare professionals can recognize and treat SUDs, which include OUD, and s
Read more…TREATMENT IMPROVEMENT PROTOCOL (TIP) 63: This TIP reviews three Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for opioid use disorder treatment—methadone, naltrexone, and buprenorphine—and the other strategies and services needed to support peopl
Read more…The demand for residential treatment for parents with their children is expanding quickly. However, the number of licensed facilities for parents with children is growing slowly. This challenge is compounded by the lack of information about these fac
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