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Penn LDI: A Catch-Up on Promising Efforts to Mitigate the Opioid Crisis

Penn LDI: A Catch-Up on Promising Efforts to Mitigate the Opioid Crisis

News

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...
City streetscapes and neighborhood characteristics of fatal opioid overdoses among people experiencing homelessness who use drugs in New York City, 2017–2019

City streetscapes and neighborhood characteristics of fatal opioid overdoses among people experiencing homelessness who use drugs in New York City, 2017–2019

Publications

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...
Buprenorphine-Precipitated Opioid Withdrawal in the Emergency Department: A Case Series

Buprenorphine-Precipitated Opioid Withdrawal in the Emergency Department: A Case Series

Publications

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....
The Philadelphia Citizen: The Doc Saving Us From Ourselves

The Philadelphia Citizen: The Doc Saving Us From Ourselves

News

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
Patient perspectives on naloxone receipt in the emergency department: a qualitative exploration

Patient perspectives on naloxone receipt in the emergency department: a qualitative exploration

Publications

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
Patient Perceptions About Opioid Risk Communications Within the Context of a Randomized Clinical Trial

Patient Perceptions About Opioid Risk Communications Within the Context of a Randomized Clinical Trial

Publications

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
CareConnect: A Virtual Low-Barrier Model for Increasing Engagement in Opioid Use Disorder Care

CareConnect: A Virtual Low-Barrier Model for Increasing Engagement in Opioid Use Disorder Care

Events

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...
Motivation to Carry Naloxone: A Qualitative Analysis of Emergency Department Patients

Motivation to Carry Naloxone: A Qualitative Analysis of Emergency Department Patients

Publications

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...
Integrating peer support services into primary care-based OUD treatment: Lessons from the Penn integrated model

Integrating peer support services into primary care-based OUD treatment: Lessons from the Penn integrated model

Publications

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....
Penn LDI: A Catch-Up on Promising Efforts to Mitigate the Opioid Crisis

Program Issuing Mailed Kits Doubles Rate of Leftover Opioids Disposal

News

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...
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