October Opioids Update – Recent Research Funding Awarded

October Opioids Update – Recent Research Funding Awarded

CDC’s Injury Center recently provided funding to 11 institutions through the Research Grants for the Primary or Secondary Prevention of Opioid Overdose (RFA-CE-18-006). Over $8.5 million per year over a 3-year project period to support 12 awards (up to $750k per year per project) has begun as of October 1, 2018. This funding is supporting research that expands and advances understanding about what works to prevent opioid overdose, and will improve state and local health departments’ ability to implement and improve interventions.

The 12 awardees are:

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Principle Investigator: Shabbar Ranapurwala
  Title: Evaluation of state-mandated acute and post-surgical pain opioid prescribing guidelines

• Carolinas Medical Center
  Principle Investigator: Rachel Seymour
  Title: Implementing a multimodal path to recOVEry (IMPROVE): Primary and secondary prevention of opioid overdose in acute care

• Boston Medical Center
  Principle Investigator: Alexander Yale Walley
  Title: Knock and talk: Public health-public safety partnerships for post-overdose outreach and prevention

• University of South Florida
  Principle Investigator: Kathleen Anne Moore
  Title: Effects of remote motivational enhancement and MySafeRX on post-detox engagement and retention in buprenorphine treatment

• Johns Hopkins University
  Principle Investigator: August Holtyn
  Title: Mobile technology for buprenorphine treatment engagement and overdose prevention in out-of-treatment opioid users

• RAND Corporation
  Principle Investigator: David Powell
  Title: Improving naloxone access and its effects on drug abuse and overdoses

• National Development and Research Institutes
  Principle Investigator: Janie Elizabeth Simmons
  Title: Evaluation of an experimental educational module on opioid-related occupational safety to minimize barriers to overdose response among police officers

• University of Utah
  Principle Investigator: Gerald Cochran
  Title: Optimizing pregnancy and treatment interventions for moms 2.0

• University of Pennsylvania
  Principle Investigator: David S. Metzger
  Title: Rapid initiation of buprenorphine/naloxone to optimize MAT utilization in Philadelphia

• Johns Hopkins University
  Principle Investigator: Carl Latkin
  Title: An evaluation of a social network intervention for primary and secondary prevention of opioid overdoses

• Oregon Health & Science University
  Principle Investigator: Elizabeth Needham-Waddell
  Title: Reducing overdose after release from incarceration (ROAR)

• Center Of Environmental Health
  Principle Investigator: Kitty H. Gelberg
  Title: Evaluation of community-based drug user health hubs to reduce opioid overdoses in NY State