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The Authors’ Own Words: Ten years of implementing screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT): Lessons learned

Feb 15, 2018 by AMERSA

We ask authors to describe their impressions regarding the implications of their accepted work, how their findings will change practice, and what is noteworthy about the work.

Ten years of implementing screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT): Lessons learned

Ana P. Nunes, Melissa K. Richmond, Kelly Marzano, Carolyn J. Swenson & Jodi Lockhart

Substance Abuse Vol. 38, Iss. 4, 2017

As more primary care clinics and hospitals move toward implementing SBI as a standard of integrated care, establishing best implementation practices is fundamental to program success and sustainability. After ten years of implementing a statewide SBIRT initiative, SBIRT Colorado is uniquely positioned to offer key lessons learned about successful implementation. SBIRT Colorado has also had the opportunity to consider SBIRT in the context of legalized medical and recreational marijuana. This manuscript provides guidance to healthcare clinics and hospitals initiating SBI into their practice.

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The Authors’ Own Words: Preliminary investigation of a videogame prototype for cigarette and marijuana prevention in adolescents

Feb 14, 2018 by AMERSA

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Preliminary investigation of a videogame prototype for cigarette and marijuana prevention in adolescents

Lindsay R. Duncan, Kimberly D. Hieftje, Tyra M. Pendergrass, Benjamin G. Sawyer & Lynn E. Fiellin

Substance Abuse Vol. 0, Iss. 0, 2018

This study showed improvements in knowledge about the risks of smoking cigarettes and marijuana for adolescents who played the videogame prototype. There was also an encouraging trend in the expected direction for changes in self-efficacy and perceived norms related to smoking cigarettes and marijuana. Feedback from the players about their gameplay experience was very positive. Despite their preliminary nature, our findings suggest that a videogame based on key cognitive and motivational variables may be an effective and engaging means to deliver a cigarette and marijuana prevention intervention. Our data also suggest important ways in which the game could be enhanced for even more meaningful effects.

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The Authors’ Own Words: Co-prescription of naloxone as a Universal Precautions model for patients on chronic opioid therapy—Observational study

Sep 20, 2017 by AMERSA

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Co-prescription of naloxone as a Universal Precautions model for patients on chronic opioid therapy—Observational study

Mikiko Y. Takeda, Joanna G. Katzman, Ernest Dole, Melissa Heinz Bennett, Amal Alchbli, Daniel Duhigg & Howard Yonas

Substance Abuse Vol. 37 , Iss. 4,2016

Since opioid overdose death is such a pressing public health issue, harm reduction innovations to prevent overdose death are critical to study. The ambulatory co-prescribing of naloxone is a universal precaution model for all patients prescribed chronic opioid therapy. This can be adapted universally for all patients treated with chronic opioid therapy in an ambulatory setting so that there is increased availability and utilization in the case of an opioid overdose.

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The Authors’ Own Words: A qualitative analysis of family involvement in prescribed opioid medication monitoring among individuals who have experienced opioid overdoses

Sep 13, 2017 by AMERSA

We ask authors to describe their impressions regarding the implications of their accepted work, how their findings will change practice, and what is noteworthy about the work.

A qualitative analysis of family involvement in prescribed opioid medication monitoring among individuals who have experienced opioid overdoses

Scott P. Stumbo, Bobbi Jo H. Yarborough, Shannon L. Janoff, Micah T. Yarborough, Dennis McCarty & Carla A. Green

Substance Abuse Vol. 37 , Iss. 1,2016

Family-initiated efforts to monitor or manage opioid medications were more common when misuse was known only to family members or when the patient was seen as particularly vulnerable, especially when elderly or suicidal. These efforts were met with varying levels of acceptance by patients and were often unknown by clinicians. Our findings suggest that efforts to foster collaborative treatment planning involving patients, families, and clinicians could help reduce the risk of opioid overdoses.

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The Authors’ Own Words: The impact of sharing: The use of shared medical appointments to allow providers to increase treatment access for substance use and related disorders

Sep 12, 2017 by AMERSA

We ask authors to describe their impressions regarding the implications of their accepted work, how their findings will change practice, and what is noteworthy about the work.

The impact of sharing: The use of shared medical appointments to allow providers to increase treatment access for substance use and related disorders

H. A. Colon-Rivera, A. M. Daum & Sherry Nykiel

Substance Abuse Vol. 37 , Iss. 1,2016

Physicians represent the first line of treatment for these high risk individuals. Our aim was to showcase an already proven model of treatment in a new venue, utilizing the shared medical appointment for the management of opioid use and related disorders. This method not only demonstrates an effective and efficient way for providers to treat opioid use disorders, but also allows for more time to be spent with this high risk individual population.

The manuscript provides providers struggling with multitudes of individuals with opioid use and related disorders an opportunity to offer an effective care option.