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AHRQ Opioids

Deaths from drug overdoses have risen steadily over the past two decades and have become the leading cause of injury death in the United States. Prescription drugs, especially opioids, have been increasingly implicated in drug overdose deaths over th

AHRQ initiatives to address the opioid crisis

Power-point presentation by Elisabeth Kato of AHRQ's Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement.  Kato discusses program research to understand the nation's opioid crisis and various initiatives taken to address the crisis and how it impacts divers

Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force Report: Updates, Gaps, Inconsistencies, and Recommendations

Roundtable on Data Sharing Policies, Data-Driven Solutions, and the Opioid Crisis

The Center for Open Data Enterprise's (CODE) hosted a Roundtable, with a goal to “explore possibilities and limits of data sharing, and identify successes and proposed solutions for using data to address the opioid crisis...Read More >>

ASPE: Child Welfare Substance Abuse

While many believe parental substance use – including prescription drugs, illicit drugs and alcohol, but especially opioids – has been the primary cause of the increase in foster care placements, thus far there has been little empirical evidence to s