People's Opioid Project

A collective solution to combating the opioid crisis. We create & provide evidence-based prevention tools to organizations taking action against the epidemic.

[Michael Botticelli @MBotticelliBMC]

In MA in 2014-15, 83% of overdoses involved an opioid and another substance. Crucial new findings from @jabarocas @LarochelleMarc @AlexanderWalley @BenjaminLinas about the widespread nature of polysubstance use + importance of social determinants. https://t.co/Q247g2Bx34

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

Devastating progression from rx opioids to heroin, heroin to fentanyl. Needed for now? Narcan, clean inj sites, treatment promo. Needed now, for later? Upstream risk ed to prevent a new wave.

[Sophia Lerdahl @SophiaLerdahl]

”Most users here took up heroin only after crackdowns on rx opioids took hold... Even if heroin were to proliferate again... the high it provided would not suffice for most users because the fentanyl they have gotten used to is so much more potent.” https://t.co/kb16J9EHVt

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

Addiction can happen to anyone. Busting myths of perceived irrelevance of risks is a MUST: A trusted doctor got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start. @samquinones7 reports: https://t.co/3Qk6FQ5WEC

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

The opioid crisis isn't exclusive, so our strategies to combat it shouldn't be either. That's why we're making moves to make evidence-based opioid misuse prevention content available to more organizations, faster. https://t.co/zzgL6pIJTn to learn more. #opioidcrisis #healthcomm

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

Excited to share our first flagship video, Strong as the Ocean! This is a part of our new content package available for licensing and customization.
https://t.co/EIklhwHPJT

[Jeffrey W Jordan @jeffreywjordan]

Really proud of this new @RescueAgency opioid misuse prevention ad for the Vermont Dept of Health. It is tackling a part of the crisis we aren't hearing as much about: recreational overdose. #OpioidCrisis https://t.co/STPTxlL4CP

[Sophia Lerdahl @SophiaLerdahl]

Great episode abt how pain becoming the 5th vital sign in 1990s contributed to patient expectations for pain mgmt solutions and therefore changed prescribing practices and therefore increased supply of pain meds in general pop. 👏 ⁦@NPRinvisibilia⁩ https://t.co/4wJ5HPAqa8

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

Curious to see how this gets allocated: https://t.co/YC1hbLRCaJ

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

Exciting news from the feds: Senate passes comprehensive opioids bill https://t.co/Zg8D1W5ZbL

Much needed support on treatment, recovery, enforcement, and prescription limits. But where's the prevention? We need proactive prevention, too, to turn this tide.

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

Bold policy moves like this one are how we can move the needle on reducing opioid misuse: Blue Cross will stop covering OxyContin in TN next year, covering harder-to-abuse alternatives instead. https://t.co/94fal5d40Y via @tennessean

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

"This epidemic does not discriminate. No family is immune from the scourge of the opioid crisis." That's why we need education and prevention efforts that target all levels of risk, now. From: The opioid crisis hits home. Mine. https://t.co/EV067WvNP4

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

On this @OverdoseDay, treatment and recovery support are urgently needed. But let's also take the long view and improve the way we educate and prevent the next wave of potential overdose victims through audience-centric strategies.

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

Furthermore, docs are required to take 8 hour training to prescribe buprenorphine. Where are the same checks on opioid painkillers when prescribed in quantities proven to put patients at risk of addiction / overdose?

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

So you're telling me buprenorphine has strict prescription limits, where docs can only prescribe to 275 patients / year, yet dangerous amounts of opioid painkillers can be prescribed un-checked? https://t.co/Z7y5z1nnAF

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

"Most opioid prescription deaths occur among people with common conditions for which prescribing risks outweigh benefits". A new study shows what happens when doctors are made aware that their prescriptions led to opioid overdose death. https://t.co/yQW2ok3WsG

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

The family of the late rock star Prince is suing a doctor who prescribed pain pills for him, saying the doctor failed to treat him for opiate addiction and therefore bears responsibility for his death https://t.co/y5zVQmCdQS

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

Excellent new documentary "Runnin'" depicts the epidemic's impact on a community outside of Boston https://t.co/jrdAiLL9AB

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

"The street dealers then call it whatever they want, leaving most customers completely unaware that the drug they just bought is actually fentanyl." https://t.co/TJiOsDxGw4

[People's Opioid Project @OpioidProject]

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