NEW in NEJM from Kao-Ping Chua Thuy Nguyen & colleagues:

A look at how things have changed in use of medication to treat opioid addiction in the year since the X waiver requirement was suddenly removed: ihpi.umich.edu/news/its-easie…

New pub NEJM: after elimination of the waiver requirement to prescribe buprenorphine, the # of prescribers increased, but the # of patients changed little. U-M IHPI CHEAR Dr. Rena Conti Mark Bicket, MD, PhD, FASA 🇺🇸 Pooja Lagisetty Thuy Nguyen Amy Bohnert NIDAnews
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Patients infected with #covid19 had SIMILAR SELF-REPORTED FUNCTIONING level 18 months after infection as matched uninfected comparators.

👍Good news for patients 👍
➡️Contrasts with studies suggesting pervasive, persistent negative COVID effects for yrs after infection.…

Exciting conversations today on pain & opioids University of Michigan opioid research institute✨🔬💊

Will Birdsong explores the impact of opioids on pain signals in the anterior cingulate cortex 🧠

University of MichiganAnesthesia's Jennifer Pierce dives into the connection between trauma & chronic pain ❤️‍🩹…

New research from @UMichPoverty, U-M Opioid Research Institute, & @Michigan_Open shows the correlation between opioid use disorder and demographic factors such as unemployment rates, annual income, and physical and mental health. myumi.ch/Dwbqj

🔔Tune in tomorrow - Jonathan Morrow & Chris Frank of @UMichMedicine
discuss 'Treating Patients with Buprenorphine For Primary Care Providers'

⏰ Tue Feb 27 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
📚 4.0 CME hours towards new DEA HQ requirement
💵 First 250 PCPs in Michigan to register & complete…

Emily Pasman will present Leveraging the Capacity of Peer Providers to Improve Substance Use Services virtually Thursday, February 15th @ 10am as part of the 2024 Opioid Settlement Technical Assistance Learning Series. Wayne State University DASH Center

Register:
events.wayne.edu/2024/02/15/tac…

Opportunity to train with a fantastic and productive group!

Thanks, Alex! Yes, the lack of variation is as much of the story as the variation between institutions.

Where you train matters. #SexualHarassment carries considerable consequences for trainee wellbeing and attrition.

✅new work led by Dr. Elizabeth Viglianti in JAMA Network Open ✨

#WomenInMedicine AMWA Doctors #MeToo #MeToo Medicine #MedTwitter #MedEd

👉bit.ly/48e5JJu

New JAMA Network Open : rate and size of opioid Rx by surgeons⬇️36-46% since 2016. But these Rx still averaged ~44 pills in 2022. Efforts to right-size these Rx still needed. @um_ihpi CHEAR Chad M Brummett Mark Bicket, MD, PhD, FASA 🇺🇸 NIDAnews Thuy Nguyen Amy Bohnert
jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

The University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center has released a report that examines the use of public health principles and strategies in Michigan’s opioid related legislation. myumi.ch/Dwb5Q

Our target trial emulation using Veterans Health data found that #Paxlovid did not reduce the risk for many post-COVID-19 conditions

ow.ly/egNg50Q2Fk2

Annals of Int Med
Hope this:
➡️Stimulates more research on how to prevent or treat #LongCovid sequelae
➡️ Provides an example…

1/ New JAMA Health Forum: using a statewide surgical registry, we find a Michigan insurer's limit decreased opioid prescribing by 4 pills without worsening pain control after surgery. Chad M Brummett Amy Bohnert Thuy Nguyen Michael Englesbe CHEAR U-M IHPI
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Huge congrats to Mark Bicket, MD, PhD, FASA 🇺🇸 and Thuy Nguyen, PhD. Important new work funded by NIH NIDA.
OPEN Michigan Public Health Michigan Research

U-M research team finds that medications for opioid use disorder are rarely prescribed within 30 days of emergency department visits for opioid overdoses among patients with Medicaid.

Our new study on utilization of #COVID19 pharmacotherapies in Veterans Health
1⃣ % treated plateaued ~21%
2⃣ Paxlovid most common ~15%; molnupiravir also common at 6%
3⃣ Great geographic variability in use

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37651140/

For people with #ChronicPain who have been taking #opioids over the long term, a newly published expert consensus highlights the importance of #healthinsurance changes and provider education to enable multimodal pain care:
ihpi.umich.edu/news/experts-c…

🙏 for successful f2f meeting of our CORC (COVID-19 Observational Research Collaboratory) at Ann Arbor.
🙏🙏 ⁦
Denise Hynes
Jack Iwashyna🫁⁩
⁦Amy Bohnert⁩
⁦Ann O'Hare⁩ ⁦Elizabeth Viglianti⁩
Ed Boyko
Matt Maciejewski
Kristina Bajema

research.va.gov/corc

See the new cover article about the Michigan Psychedelic Center (M-PsyC) in the most recent issue of Medicine at Michigan! michiganmedicine.org/medicine-michi…