Background: The opioid crisis is a pervasive public health threat in the U.S. Simulation modeling approaches that integrate a systems perspective are used to understand the complexity of this crisis and to analyze what policy interventions can best address it. However, limitations in currently ...
However, real-time data on the opioid crisis is nearly impossible to gather because of reporting lags, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Access to this data is a challenge because it relies on multiple processes that can take weeks or months to complete, such as...
A: The records lie at the heart of the lawsuits over theopioid crisis. The DEA agreed last year to provide the information to parties in the cases, but the parties initially agreed to tight restrictions on who could see it. While lawyers had access, even the mayors and county officials wh...
“Insurers are actively trying to use claims data to identify risk earlier and intervene earlier,” said George Van Antwerp, senior manager at Deloitte Consulting and co-author of a Deloitte report on strategies for stemming the opioid crisis. “Everybody is doing something to address this crisis...
There isn’t enough evidence to suggest that digital therapies for people with opioid use disorder (OUD) can improve on standard interventions, according to the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review.
The NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiativeis tapping intodata management and stewardship expertise to better inform research related to the opioid crisis. The NIH HEAL Initiative is providing up to $21.4 million over five years to the Renaissance Computing Institute...
for the past five years, withCraig McCanntestifying as to the accuracy of the processed data and reporting on statistical analysis of shipments to various effected locales. SLCG's processed ARCOS data has also been the basis for news coverage of the opioid crisis by major national news outlets...
SOURCE uses national data on opioid use from 1999 to 2020 to track stages of use and misuse of opioids, including use initiation, treatment, relapse and death by overdose. "Unlike other national models of the crisis, SOURCE replicates how the risks of opioid misuse have evolved over time in...
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Major challenges associated with identifying the risk factors of POU stem, in part, from the complexity of the concept itself. POU is described by many terms, each existing on a continuum of severity with opioid misuse considered the least severe and opioid dependence commonly considered the most...