Maggie Lowenstein sat down for a Q&A with Penn LDI’s Karl Stark to talk trends and promising efforts in opioid and substance use care. CareConnect, an opioid telehealth program on which Lowenstein collaborates with Jeanmarie Perrone, was separately featured...
Liz Nesoff led a study on how streetscapes and neighborhood characteristics influence the incidence of overdose among people experiencing homelessness in New York City. More than 55% of fatal overdoses occurred in supportive housing or shelters and there were various...
A team including Austin Kilaru, Jeanmarie Perrone, Kit Delgado, and Maggie Lowenstein conducted a case series investigation of patients who developed complications after starting buprenorphine in the ED for opioid use disorder, which is a rare (but feared) occurrence....
Penn physician-scientist Kit Delgado applies what he learns from treating injured patients in the ER to changing the behavior that gets us there in the first place. Read the full story
Maggie Lowenstein, Jeanmarie Perrone, Kit Delgado, Anish Agarwal, and other colleagues explored how patients receive naloxone and the accompanying provider conversations (or lack thereof). Read the full publication
Zack Meisel and colleagues examine patient perceptions of two different methods of communicating opioid risk: a probability tool versus a narrative-enhanced probability tool (with past patient videos). Read the full publication
Shoshana Aronowitz and Margaret Lowenstein present at the seminar series titled “How the Injury Control Research Centers are responding to the Opioid Epidemic: Reports from the Front Lines of a Public Health Crisis,” organized by the Johns Hopkins Center for...
Maggie Lowenstein, Kit Delgado, Jeanmarie Perrone, and Anish Agarwal contributed to a qualitative study on the motivations for carrying naloxone in patients that were prescribed the life-saving drug at emergency department discharge. Read the full...
Maggie Lowenstein and colleagues report on Penn Medicine’s peer support program for patients being treated for opioid use disorder, including lessons learned, organizational challenges, and unresolved questions, in order to improve care and treatment adherence....
A study led by PISC Senior Scholar Kit Delgado and Anish Agarwal finds that patients of orthopaedic and urologic procedures were more likely to dispose of their extra opioid tablets when they received kits in the mail to do so. Read more from Penn Medicine...
