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Vaccines for Opioid Use Disorder: Focusing on the Fentanyl Epidemic
May 28, 2019
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NSAIDS: Friend or Foe in the Battle Against Pain?
May 29, 2019
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PCSS provides clinical mentoring aimed at improving providers' confidence and skills in treating opioid use disorder and pain.
Simulated Training: Talk About OUD with Your Patients
Talk About Opioid Use Disorder with Your Patients: A Clinical Practice Simulation is a 30-minute interactive case-based training simulation offering best practices and evidence-based communication strategies to better equip primary care providers to address the needs of patients with opioid use disorder (OUD).
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Ohio County Sees Dramatic Decrease in Overdose Deaths
Can Their Success be Replicated?
In the last several months, Hamilton County in Ohio, a diverse area that includes Cincinnati, has seen a 34 percent decrease in opioid-related deaths and a greater than 50 percent increase in the number of people receiving treatment.
Latest News
April 30, 2019
Treating Opioid Use Disorder
By: Elinore F. McCance-Katz, MD, PhD, Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use
I write this today not to provide a listing of programs that my agency has funded nor an update on how …
April 26, 2019
CDC Advises Against Misapplication of the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
In a new commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), authors of the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (Guideline) advise against misapplication of the Guideline…
March 14, 2019
MAT Waiver Course Seeing Huge Increase in Numbers
PCSS has seen a huge increase in the number of MAT waiver courses in recent months, presenting numerous opportunities to address the opioid crisis. Only six months into the third year of the grant, a…
