Findings from a new national study, led by researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show an alarming disparity in the treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) among White, Black, and Hispanic patients.
Project 439 seeks to stem the rising tide of opioid overdose deaths in New Hampshire while helping those struggling with substance abuse protect their health.
A team of Geisel faculty, students, and pediatric staff at Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock received a Clinical Care Innovation Challenge Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges for creating a new model of care for in utero opioid-exposed and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome-affected newborns.
More than 40 percent of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) recipients take opioid pain relievers, while the prevalence of chronic opioid use is over 20 percent and rising, reports a study in the September issue of Medical Care.
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