Prescription Drug Misuse

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Jun 4, 2025

Nudging Prescribers to Reduce Excess Opioids After Surgery: A Simple and Effective Email Intervention

This brief describes a study in which surgeons who overprescribed opioids after surgery received email “nudges” to align their prescriptions with recommended amounts.
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Apr 22, 2025

Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Team Addiction Consultation Service (START ACS): An Addiction Consultation Service for Opioid Use Disorder

This guide describes the Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Team Addiction Consultation Service, a program that aims to enhance treatment initiation and ensure successful connections to follow-up care for people with opioid use disorder.
Expert Insights

Feb 26, 2025

Addressing the Opioid Crisis Among Older Americans: Strategies for Prevention, Treatment, and Supporting Families Affected by Addiction

Testimony presented before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging on February 26, 2025.
Research

Feb 7, 2025

A Call for Community-Shared Decisions

In light of issues such as antibiotic overuse and prescription opioid misuse, the authors present recommendations for medical decision-making that includes the community as well as the patient and clinician in order to maximize collective benefit.
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Feb 7, 2025

Drivers of Variation in Opioid Prescribing After Common Surgical Procedures in a Large Multihospital Healthcare System

Analysis of 25,188 surgeries at a large multihospital healthcare system clarifies sources of medically warranted and unwarranted variation in postsurgery opioid prescribing practices.
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Feb 7, 2025

Persistence of Social Norms Feedback on Postsurgery Opioid Prescribing Behavior: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial

In a recent cluster randomized clinical trial, social norms-based feedback to surgeons significantly reduced overprescribing of postsurgery opioids. This analysis shows that the feedback's effect persisted one year after the feedback stopped.
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Jul 25, 2024

Opioid Prescribing Patterns After Imposition of Setting-Specific Limits on Prescription Duration

This study examined whether an opioid prescription duration limit policy tailored to different clinical settings was associated with shorter opioid prescription lengths.
Research

May 10, 2024

Drug-related Physician Continuing Medical Education Requirements, 2010-2020

A descriptive legal review of laws in all 50 states and D.C. searched for continuing medical education requirements for physicians regarding controlled substance prescribing, pain management, or substance use disorder treatment.
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Mar 18, 2024

Peer Comparison or Guideline-Based Feedback and Postsurgery Opioid Prescriptions: A Randomized Clinical Trial

In this cluster-RCT that included 640 surgeons, social norm-based email feedback sent to surgeons with postoperative opioid prescriptions above guideline-recommended amounts significantly reduced future guideline-discordant prescribing.
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Nov 15, 2023

Trends in Personal and Family Member Opioid Prescriptions Prior to a Diagnosis of an Opioid-Related Problem Among Adolescents and Young Adults

This study examined the proportion of adolescents and young adults who had an opioid-related problem and who also had a personal opioid prescription drug claim or had a family member with an opioid prescription drug claim prior to the diagnosis.
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Jun 30, 2023

America's Opioid Crisis: Adopting an Ecosystem Approach

The opioid crisis is metastasizing throughout society, reaching across public health and public safety, but also education, employment, and the child welfare system. Without profound change and new approaches to the crisis, hundreds of thousands of people could die in the coming years.
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Jun 27, 2023

Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on Opioid Prescribing and Opioid-Related Hospital Visits in Colorado: An Observational Study

Our mixed findings suggest that further increases in cannabis beyond medical access may not always reduce opioid prescribing or opioid-related hospital visits at a population level.

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Nudging Prescribers to Reduce Excess Opioids After Surgery: A Simple and Effective Email Intervention

Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Team Addiction Consultation Service (START ACS): An Addiction Consultation Service for Opioid Use Disorder

Addressing the Opioid Crisis Among Older Americans: Strategies for Prevention, Treatment, and Supporting Families Affected by Addiction

A Call for Community-Shared Decisions

Drivers of Variation in Opioid Prescribing After Common Surgical Procedures in a Large Multihospital Healthcare System

Persistence of Social Norms Feedback on Postsurgery Opioid Prescribing Behavior: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial

Opioid Prescribing Patterns After Imposition of Setting-Specific Limits on Prescription Duration

Drug-related Physician Continuing Medical Education Requirements, 2010-2020

Peer Comparison or Guideline-Based Feedback and Postsurgery Opioid Prescriptions: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Trends in Personal and Family Member Opioid Prescriptions Prior to a Diagnosis of an Opioid-Related Problem Among Adolescents and Young Adults

America's Opioid Crisis: Adopting an Ecosystem Approach

Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on Opioid Prescribing and Opioid-Related Hospital Visits in Colorado: An Observational Study

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Nudging Prescribers to Reduce Excess Opioids After Surgery: A Simple and Effective Email Intervention

Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Team Addiction Consultation Service (START ACS): An Addiction Consultation Service for Opioid Use Disorder

Addressing the Opioid Crisis Among Older Americans: Strategies for Prevention, Treatment, and Supporting Families Affected by Addiction

A Call for Community-Shared Decisions

Drivers of Variation in Opioid Prescribing After Common Surgical Procedures in a Large Multihospital Healthcare System

Persistence of Social Norms Feedback on Postsurgery Opioid Prescribing Behavior: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial

Opioid Prescribing Patterns After Imposition of Setting-Specific Limits on Prescription Duration

Drug-related Physician Continuing Medical Education Requirements, 2010-2020

Peer Comparison or Guideline-Based Feedback and Postsurgery Opioid Prescriptions: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Trends in Personal and Family Member Opioid Prescriptions Prior to a Diagnosis of an Opioid-Related Problem Among Adolescents and Young Adults

America's Opioid Crisis: Adopting an Ecosystem Approach

Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on Opioid Prescribing and Opioid-Related Hospital Visits in Colorado: An Observational Study

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