Overdose Prevention Engagement Network
The Overdose Prevention Engagement Network, or OPEN, uses a novel approach to prevent chronic opioid use before it starts. Its comprehensive strategy relies on using robust networks of physicians across the state to improve opioid prescribing practices in acute settings (surgery, dentistry, emergency medicine, and trauma). OPEN also prevents the diversion of unused and unwanted opioids into local communities through medication take-back events statewide.
Contact Information
Overdose Prevention Engagement Network
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Visit OPEN's website to learn more about:
- The latest findings about opioid misuse and prevention strategies
- OPEN's work in developing opioid prescribing guidelines
- Safe opioid disposal and take back drives
Leadership
Mark Bicket, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Preventing chronic opioid use before it starts
Learn how OPEN is helping prevent opioid misuse through improved prescribing practices and medication takeback drives.
Opioid prescribing after surgery: Reducing the risks
Yet with little guidance available to prescribers, overprescribing is a widespread issue, contributing to the nation's opioid epidemic as well as the problem of millions of leftover pills vulnerable to diversion into communities.
What does U-M research show about ways to reduce risk associated with opioid prescribing? This research brief offers some insights.
Teaming up in the emergency room to tackle pain management and opioids
In this video, Michigan Medicine’s Dr. Michael Englesbe, professor of surgery, and Dr. Keith Kocher, associate professor of emergency medicine, talk about the importance of the emergency room as an important care setting with opportunities to identify and curb opioid misuse.
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News
July 29, 2024
Drs. Bicket and Waljee will lead the study funded through the National Institute of Drug Abuse
