The opioid crisis has hit Philadelphia particularly hard, with over 46 overdose deaths per 100,000 residents in 2017, twice the national average. In response, the City of Philadelphia developed an overarching prevention strategy, the Resilience Project, which includes...
Patients with substance abuse disorders are at risk for self-directed hospital discharge, which often leads to adverse health outcomes. A recent study featuring PISC Senior Scholar Shoshana Aronowitz, PhD, CRNP, FNP-BC, evaluates the relationship between acute pain...
Led by PISC postdoctoral fellow Austin Kilaru, MD, and Senior Scholar Margaret Lowenstein, MD, this commentary piece discusses the impact of emergency department (ED) opioid prescriptions on the US opioid crisis. It questions the conditions in which a patient...
Co-authored by PISC Senior Scholar Shoshana Aronowitz, PhD, and Executive Committee member Zachary F. Meisel, MD, MPH, MA, this commentary article discusses the impact of stigma on healthcare access for people who use drugs. As the article notes, the fear and...
Among the numerous policies enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, a notable one that highly impacted individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) was the March 2020 suspension of regulations on SUD treatment. In order to better understand the effect of this...
This study aims to improve the treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) by developing, refining, implementing, and evaluating a bundled orderset in the electronic health record (EHR) for streamlined assessment, treatment, and referral of patients with OUD that present...
