Patients with addiction deserve rigorous evidence We hope this article is helpful to others seeking to update and strengthen the evidence base around medications for opioid use disorder

Housing ends homelessness. The upcoming landmark #SCOTUS case, Johnson v. Grants Pass, poses a crucial question: Do we address #homelessness with punishment or support? Visit johnsonvgrantspass.com to learn more.

I am THRILLED to announce the first public version of the MN EHR Consortium Health Trends Across Communities Dashboard! Our new dashboard reports rates of health conditions at the census tract level across MN. Check it out today! mnehrconsortium.org/health-trends-…

Important work with Pitt General Internal Medicine faculty showing that medications for alcohol use disorder started in hospital leads to improved outcomes.

A new stidy from Jeremy Sussman & colleagues sheds new light on the key role that #primarycare providers play in #cardiovascular risk factor management. It also suggests that many with higher risks aren't getting care often enough: ihpi.umich.edu/news/want-cut-…

Important new data from a multi-national consortium highlight the markedly elevated mortality risk in the first week after incarceration; esp. due to overdose and #suicide . Authors call for an urgent need for investment coordinated transitional healthcare thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Thanks to Leana Wen, M.D. for citing our MN EHR Consortium project with Hennepin County in her recent The Washington Post piece: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Nearly half of states want to be able to offer Medicaid to people before they're released from jail or prison, including 7 applying in the last year. Lots of interest in this from red and blue states, especially as a way to address overdose deaths.

Excited to share our work with NYC Health + Hospitals Daniel Schatz to apply the OUD Cascade of Care to a large public health health system to help internally evaluate outcomes ! Hope this will be a useful model other hospitals wanting to do the same tandfonline.com/eprint/GW5WCP8…

Today, we are proud to introduce the #JusticeOutcomesExplorer! JOE is a publicly available data dashboard that provides a fresh glimpse into how the criminal justice system touches the lives of millions of Americans every year: joe.cjars.org [1/10] 🧵

Most viewed in the last 7 days from JAMA Cardiology: Declines in HF-related mortality from 1999 to 2012 have been entirely undone by reversals from 2012 to 2021, meaning that contemporary HF mortality rates are higher than in 1999. ja.ma/3yduCaX

This is such an important conversation we SHOULD be having. Infants are the fastest growing age group in the US foster system today, largely due to parental substance use. The system has moved forward because of inertia, federal law, unclear guidance from fed->state, unclear

A new study published in JAMA Network Open by Gail D'Onofrio et al suggests that 7-day extended-release buprenorphine is feasible in patients with OUD presenting with minimal to mild COWS scores (4-7), and may lower barriers to treatment. Read more:

Making treatment welcoming & available across all medical settings is a needed step to ensure access to high quality, person-centered addiction treatment at any touchpoint with the healthcare system. We are working to do just that at Mass General Brigham statnews.com/2024/07/19/int…

Risk of overdose death after jail release 15x, after prison release 28x higher than the general population in MN. These estimates update prior work focusing on prisons alone & for the current polysubstance/fentanyl overdose crisis. SEICHE Center for Health and Justice Health, Homelessness, and Criminal Justice Lab ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJ…

🚨We have a new publication on insurance instability among patients with opioid use disorder, now out in JAMA Health Forum Take-home: Nearly 1 in 3 patients with newly diagnosed OUD experience an insurance transition or loss in the following year 1/8 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Excellent piece by Harold Pollack stressing the need for more government investment in criminal justice research.

New Yale School of Medicine Yale School of Public Health Hennepin Healthcare study in AJPH finds the cause of death after prison release differs from general population & people w/ substance use disorders are particularly vulnerable. Learn more: medicine.yale.edu/internal-medic… Tyler Winkelman MD MSc Health, Homelessness, and Criminal Justice Lab

In this scoping review, the ACA was most strongly associated with an increase in insurance coverage and a decrease in recidivism among people with criminal-legal involvement. For other outcomes, evidence was scant or mixed. ja.ma/471MnaU

Surgeon General: Parents Are at Wit’s End. We Can Do Better. nytimes.com/2024/08/28/opi…