Since 1999, annual opioid-related overdose (ORO) mortality has increased more than six-
fold. In response to this crisis, the US Department of Health and Human Services outlined a …

Purpose Continuing health provider education (HPE) is an important intervention supported
by health policy to counter the opioid epidemic; knowledge regarding appropriate program …

Background Health professionals may stigmatize and prefer social distance from patients
with opioid misuse, leading to poorer quality of care provided. The degree to which …

Objective: People with substance use disorders (SUDs) are faced with pervasive stigma.
Education-based interventions tend to emphasize biological causes of dependency; …

In the last decade, the US opioid overdose crisis has magnified, particularly since the
introduction of synthetic opioids, including fentanyl. Despite the benefits of medications for …

Background While barriers to accessing buprenorphine (BUP) therapy have been well
described, little is known about pharmacy-related barriers. The objective of this study was to …

Success in health care is increasingly being measured by improvements in population
health outcomes in response to interventions rather than by services delivered (1). In this …

Abstract Objective Opioid and Naloxone Education (ONE Rx) is a program that focuses on
community pharmacy-based patient screening and interventions to improve population …

Objective To describe the implementation of a statewide pharmacy program called ONE Rx
(Opioid and Naloxone Education) within community pharmacies. Setting Thirty community …

Objective The objective for this paper is to report on the utility of the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT)
to identify patients at elevated risk for opioid misuse and deliver medication safety-related …