About the IU Grand Challenge

IU Grand Challenges: Responding to the Addictions Crisis

"IU launches comprehensive action on addiction, partnering with Gov. Holcomb, IU Health, others" (News at IU, October 10, 2017)

Phase One projects (IU Grand Challenges Addictions Crisis Website)

Request for Phase Two Project Proposals (due June 25, 2018)

IU Research

Beth E. Meyerson, Alissa Davis, Jon D. Agley, David J. Shannon, Carrie A. Lawrence, Priscilla T. Ryder, Karleen Ritchie, and Ruth Gassman. 2018. "Predicting pharmacy syringe sales to people who inject drugs: Policy, practice and perceptions" (The International Journal of Drug Policy, June 2018)

Alex Hollingsworth, Christopher J. Ruhm, and Kosali Simon, "Macroeconomic conditions and opioid abuse" (Journal of Health Economics, December 2017)

Beth E. Meyerson, Carrie A. Lawrence, Laura Miller, Anthony Gillespie, Daniel Raymond, Kristen Kelley, and D. J. Shannon, "Against the Odds: Syringe Exchange Policy Implementation in Indiana" (AIDS and Behavior, April 2017)

The Indiana Recovery Alliance provides non-judgmental, participatory and collaborative harm reduction in Monroe County, Indiana.

General Policy Approaches

"Intersection of Opioid Addiction and Evidence-Based Policy" (APPAM & ASHEcon, via Youtube)

"Policy approaches to the opioid crisis - Part 1" (Brookings Institution, November 3, 2017)

"Policy approaches to the opioid crisis - Part 2" (Brookings Institution, November 3, 2017)

"Heroin and Opioid Policy" (Criminal Justice Policy Foundation)

Health Law

The Week in Health Law (podcast)

Governmental Regulation

"Marshaling FDA Benefit-Risk Expertise to Address the Current Opioid Abuse Epidemic" (Scott Gottlieb and Janet Woodcock, JAMA, August 1, 2017)

"Timeline of Selected FDA Activities and Significant Events Addressing Opioid Misuse and Abuse" (US FDA)

Policy through Lawsuits

"More Indiana cities file lawsuits against distributors, manufacturers amid opioid crisis" (Fox59 Web, January 8, 2018)

"Are Pharmaceutical Companies to Blame for the Opioid Epidemic? Recent lawsuits are asking courts whether the current crisis is comparable to the one over tobacco in the '90s" (Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, June 2, 2017)

Tipsheet: "Covering opioids with data" (Charles Ornstein, ProPublica)

Indiana

Indiana Data Hub

National

"Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999-2016" (NCHS Data Brief, December 2017)

"Opioid Data Analysis" (CDC)

Researched Abuse, Diversion and Addiction-Related Surveillance (RADARS) System

"Overall positivity rate in 2016" (Quest Diagnostics)

"Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index: Full year 2016 tables" (Quest Diagnostics)

Data USA

International

Custom Consumption Graphs for Opioid Medicines (Application by the Pain & Policy Studies Group)

"A capsule history of pain management" (Marcia Meldrum, JAMA, November 12, 2003)

"The Opioid Epidemic: A Brief History" (Gillian A. Beauchamp and Lewis S. Nelson, painandpsa.org)

"The Ongoing Opioid Prescription Epidemic: Historical Context" (Marcia Meldrum, American Journal of Public Health, August 2016)

"Opioid history: From 'wonder drug' to abuse epidemic" (CNN, October 14, 2016)

"A Brief, Blood-Boiling History of the Opioid Epidemic" (Mother Jones, January/February 2017)

"Faces of the opioid crisis: South Central Indiana" (Lauren Bavis, The Herald Times, September 28, 2017)

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Sam Quinones, 2015)

"Physician Behavior in the Presence of a Secondary Market: The Case of Prescription Opioids" (Molly Schnell, November 17, 2017)

"CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain"

"Morphine Milligram Equivalent (MME) Calculator" (NYC Health)

"U.S. County Prescribing Rates, 2016" (CDC)

"Medicare Part D Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool" (CMS)

"The Effect of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Opioid Utilization in Medicare" (Thomas C. Buchmueller and Collen Carey, NBER Working Paper No. 23148, February 2017)

"Opioid Addiction and Treatment" (Healthcare Triage with Dr. Aaron Carroll, via Youtube)

"How a brain gets hooked on opioids" (PBS NewsHour, October 9, 2017)

"Evaluating the CEA's cost estimates of the opioid crisis" (The Hill)

"Mortality Risk Valuation" (US Environmental Protection Agency)

"What is a human life worth? When it comes to the opioid crisis, it's at least $5 million" (MarketWatch, November 29, 2017)

"Opioids on the Job are Overwhelming American Employers" (Bloomberg, September 20, 2017)

"Opioid crisis reflected in child abuse, neglect cases" (Brittani Howell, The Herald-Times, March 22, 2018)

"Heroin and Opioid Policy" (Criminal Justice Policy Foundation)

"The National Institute of Justice's Role in the Strategy to Combat Heroin and Other Opioids" (Linda Truitt, Senior Social Science Analyst, NIJ, December 6, 2017)

"The Curious (Dis)Connection between the Opioid Epidemic and Crime" (Szalavitz and Rigg 2017, Substance Use & Misuse)

"Why Police Backing Is Key to Needle Exchanges" (Christine Vestal, Stateline, The PEW Charitable Trusts, February 13, 2018)

"Substance Abuse Disorders: Key Legislation and Innovative Programs Addressing Addiction" (National Criminal Justice Association)

"Opioid Epidemic and the Courts" (Michael White and Tara Kunkel, National Center for State Courts, 2017)

Treatment in the Criminal Justice System

"Study: Most people referred for opioid treatment by criminal justice system don't receive optimal care" (Barbara Benham, HUB, Johns Hopkins University, December 4, 2017)

"Medications to Treat Opioid Addiction: Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder in the Criminal Justice System" (NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse, January 17, 2018)

"Treating Drug Abuse and Addiction in the Criminal Justice System: Improving Public Health and Safety" (Chandler, Fletcher, and Volkow 2009, JAMA)

"Postincarceration Fatal Overdoses After Implementing Medications for Addiction Treatment in a Statewide Correctional System" (Green et al 2018, JAMA Psychiatry

Syringe/Needle Exchanges

"Syringe Distribution Laws" and "Syringe Possession Laws" (July 1, 2012 to July 1, 2017), datasets capturing changes in state laws related to syringe distribution and syringe possession (Created by Scott Burris and maintained by the Policy Surveillance Program)

"Needle Exchanges Help Curb Disease, but Legislators Don't Like Them" (Healthcare Triage with Dr. Aaron Carroll, October 11, 2016, via Youtube)

Project Cultivate, through the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention at the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, helps communities throughout Indiana as they consider whether syringe exchange is appropriate for them, and if so, how they can begin the process.

Naloxone and Overdose Prevention

"Naloxone Overdose Prevention Laws" (January 1, 2001 to July 1, 2017), a dataset focusing on state laws that provide civil or criminal immunity for opioid antagonist adminstration (PDAPS; paid subscription is required to download data).

"Good Samaritan Overdose Prevention Laws" (January 1, 2007 to December 1, 2016), a dataset focusing on state laws that create immunities or other legal protections for people who call for help in the event of an overdose" PDAPS; paid subscription is required to download data)

Medication-Assisted Treatment

"A qualitative study comparing physician-reported barriers to treating addiction using buprenorphine and extended-release naltrexone in U.S. office-based practices" (Barbara Andraka-Christou and Matthew J. Capone, The International Journal of Drug Policy, April 2018).

"Medication-Assisted Recovery from Opioid Addiction: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives" (William White, Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2012; also available from the author's website)