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. 

https://ed-bridge.org/?_cldee=bmF2YWhuYXZpQG

Big business funding for affordable housing

 Microsoft invests $500 million in local affordable housing

• To address homelessness and accelerate construction in Puget sound region
• Provide below-market-rate loans
• $25 million in grants will be awarded to organizations addressing homelessness in Seatt

CDC: Opioid prescriptions 87% more likely in rural areas

CDC: Opioid prescriptions 87% more likely in rural areas

• 3 year-period of data used in this study
• residents of *most* rural areas are more likely to recieve opioid prescriptions than those in urban areas. 
• 9.6% of residents in the *most* rural counties

*news* severe birth defect possibly links to opioid use during pregnancy

Opioid use in pregnancy tied to severe birth defects:

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2019-01-17/opioid-use-in-pregnancy-tied-to-severe-birth-defects

There is a possible link between opioid use and a specific birth defect: “gastroschi

Get the Facts: Odds of Dying - ACCIDENTAL OPIOID OVERDOSE

“For the first time on record, your odds of dying from an accidental opioid overdose are greater than dying in a motor vehicle crash.”

• 1 in 96 odds of dying in opioid overdose

• 1 in 103 motor vehicle crash

• As of 2017, opioid overdose is in 5th place for

California Opioids: MAT expansion + new state opioid laws

The California MAT Expansion project

https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/individuals/Pages/State-Targeted-Response-to-Opioid-Crisis-Grant.aspx

• The California MAT Expansion Project aims to increase access to MAT, reduce unmet treatment need, and reduce opioid overd

It's not an either or, it's the BOTH AND...

There is a risk involved with using term, social determinants of health (SDoH), in consideration of accute problems. SDoH needs to be used in addressing long-term fixes.

What are the underlying systemic conditions that need to be reconfigured in order

What is contraception's role in reducing poverty?

"Children whose births are unplanned are likelier to have health complications, to be born into poverty, to stop their education sooner and to earn less. Mothers of unplanned children tend to give birth when they are younger, leave school earlier and

Intervention to Prevent Recidivism: "...crime most often happens after, and not before, contacts with hospitals and other government agencies."

 "This study involved the integration of health care and criminal justice data for people who cycle in and out of hospitals and police precincts in Camden, New Jersey. By analyzing these cross-sector data, Coalition researchers found that a small num

The experience and impact of "place" on SDOH- how to include this relationship in policy?

How to calculate ROI and/or evaluation in order to mobilize SDoH data?

Canadian research on distribution of spending and health outcomes.

The research of Daniel J. Dutton PhD, Pierre-Gerlier Forest PhD, Ronald D. Kneebone PhD, and Jennifer D. Zwicker PhD shows, 

"Using 2011 values for Ontario (the most populous province), a 1-cent increase in social spending for each dollar of health sp

How to address the "wrong pocket problem" in health and social care?

How to apply equity principles in budgets?

"We have been involved in applying an equity principle to our work and to train our staff on the value of equity and generating data. I am curious how systems would apply value and re-order their budgets to support where inequity is greatest when the