Maine has yet to spend nearly two-thirds of opioid settlement funds The Maine Opioid Settlement Support Center at USM launched a new dashboard this week to track spending of opioid settlement funds in Maine.

#Maine has spent just over a third of the #opioid settlement funds it has received during the past four years, according to new data released last week by the Maine Opioid Settlement Support Center at the University of Southern Maine.

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Industry Documents Library Industry Documents Library: a searchable archive of internal industry documents to support research, education, and public interest.

The #Opioid #Archive now has more than 7 million documents! Our latest deposit in the Endo collection (now at 1.9 million docs) pushed us over that milestone. Check them out here: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids/docu...

World News in Brief: South Sudan rights, opioid guidelines update, DR Congo crisis continues South Sudan is evolving into a catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis, UN Human Rights Council-appointed independent experts warned on Thursday.

World News in Brief: #SouthSudan rights, #opioid guidelines update, #DRCongo crisis continues

A decade of brutal civil war has left South Sudan in freefall, yet the international community struggles to hold those responsible accountable while millions face starvation and displacement

Another great webinar from the Georgetown University Health & the Public Interest Program, this time with Rick Mountcastle on “How Institutional Corruption Turbocharged the Opioid Crisis.” Check out #Opioid #Archive documents for more insight into opioid litigation. youtu.be/fvy7bkz09Qw?...

Primary Care Provider Attitudes Regarding Physical Therapists Addressing Opioid Use and Opioid Misuse: A Qualitative Study ABSTRACTImportance. Primary care providers (PCPs) manage musculoskeletal (MSK) pain and may prescribe opioids for their patients, presenting risk for opioi

💊 The objective of this new #qualitative study was to explore primary care providers' attitudes regarding physical therapists’ role in identifying and mitigating #opioid risk and opioid misuse.

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Emerging drug threats usually appear first in toxicology, not headlines.

Nineteen deaths tied to one newer synthetic opioid now underline why forensic surveillance matters.
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New Position Statement published! The American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) supports the use of expired #naloxone to reverse suspected #opioid overdose in situations where unexpired drug is not available. Read full statement: https://bit.ly/4s2N9x0

We enjoyed #Opioid #Archive advisory committee member @jennoliva.bsky.social’s presentation on "The New Drug War." Good mentions of #industry #documents and topics raised in the Archive, such as opioid marketing, prescription drug monitoring programs, and buprenorphine: youtu.be/5HtHVSTDQM4?...

JAMA Network Open presents "Intoxication in Children From Opioids Prescribed to Family Members" by Yaron Finkelstein, MD@1,2,3; Szimonetta Komjáthiné Szépligeti, MSc@4; Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó, MSc, PhD@4; et al. Published: March 26, 2026.

Children living with family members recently prescribed opioids had nearly 3-fold higher odds of opioid intoxication and nearly 4-fold higher odds of opioid-related death vs unexposed children, underscoring pediatric #Opioid safety concerns.

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Want to make the most of our #Opioid Prescribing Comparators dashboard?

@clarepharmacy.bsky.social and our ePACT2 training team have put together detailed guidance explaining the importance of this work and how to navigate the data effectively.

Take a look: https://youtu.be/SZ32Xs89vQY

Industry Documents Library Industry Documents Library: a searchable archive of internal industry documents to support research, education, and public interest.

Explore the 2012 slide deck by FingerPaint Marketing for Mallinckrodt considering #opioid marketing and sales strategies: www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/docs/yzpj0244/

Effect of Continuous Erector Spinae Plane Block on Postoperative Recovery in Patients Undergoing Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

This study shows that continuous #ESPB supports patients undergoing #MinimallyInvasive #CardiacSurgery, with modest improvements in #QoR15 scores, reduced #PostoperativePain, lower #Opioid use & fewer rescue #Analgesia interventions. #medsky

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Earlier this week, we hosted an expert consensus meeting on #opioid withdrawal measurement with our partners from Cure Addiction Now. Leading researchers and clinicians came together from across the country to tackle critical challenges in how we define, measure and study opioid withdrawal.

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Community pharmacies urged to plan ahead for Easter bank holidays with methadone safety resources The Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group (CPPSG) has published resources to help community pharmacy teams manage patient safety risks when supplying methadone and other opioid treatment medicines…

The #CommunityPharmacyPatientSafetyGroup has published resources to help community pharmacy teams manage patient safety risks when supplying #methadone and other #opioid treatment medicines over the Easter bank holidays

#PharmacySafety #CPPSG

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Infographic showing study results: injectable vs. sublingual buprenorphine for opioid disorder. Population: 1348 male, 646 female, adults in EDs; 29 US locations. Intervention: 991 got extended-release, 1003 got sublingual. Findings: no significant difference in treatment engagement.

Among adults presenting to the emergency department with untreated #opioid use disorder, ED-initiated 7-day extended-release injectable #buprenorphine and sublingual buprenorphine resulted in similar rates of treatment engagement at 7 days.

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Technology-assisted total hip arthroplasty (THA) showed lower postop #opioid use vs manual THA. However, anaesthetic technique & multimodal analgesia strategy were the principal predictors of opioid consumption

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Infographic titled "Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, Opioid Withdrawal, and Opioid Overdose A Review" published online Feb 11, 2026. It details opioid's pathophysiology, 3-stage addiction cycle, & clinical presentation of intoxication, withdrawal, & overdose.

An estimated 61 million people used unregulated #opioids in 2023 worldwide.

This Review discusses the efficacy, safety, and practical considerations of treating patients with medications for #opioid use disorder, opioid withdrawal, and opioid overdose.

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Together with Health Innovation Essex, we've developed the #Opioid Prescribing Comparators Dashboard in ePACT2.

This new resource helps GPs and pharmacists safely support patients living with chronic, non-cancer pain.

Watch our video guide: https://youtu.be/SZ32Xs89vQY

Opioids Are Not as Effective as You Think The drugs often prescribed for acute pain only provide pain relief for a short time and can lead to nausea, tolerance and overdose.

Opioids Are Not as Effective as You May Think
The drugs often prescribed for acute pain only provide pain relief for a short time and can lead to nausea, tolerance and overdose. bit.ly/4lsU9lf #oxycontin @sydney.edu.au #narcotics #opioid #opiate #PainRelief #painmanagement #surgery #dentalsurgery

Missed today’s #Opioid #Archive webinar on #data diversion for #opioid sales with Antoine Lentacker —or just want to watch again? Catch it on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/EXhHxeSCqyI

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Opioid Documents in Action: Diverting Data and Drugs. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join Dr. Antoine Lentacker for a Q&A about "Diverting Data and Drugs: A Narrative Review of the Mallinckrodt Documents."

Join us TODAY to learn how our #archives have been used to study industry use of data to promote #opioid sales. Click to register: jhjhm.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New kiosk outside Loveland Police Department offers free Narcan The kiosk has distributed hundreds of opioid overdose-reversing medications in just months. The program is funded through opioid settlement dollars.

Loveland (CO) #police set up a free #Narcan distribution kiosk outside their building to save lives from #opioid #overdoses - and funded by opioid settlement funds, at no cost to taxpayers.
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An editorial from JAMA, published January 8, 2025, titled "Safe and Sufficient—Ibuprofen for Pediatric Musculoskeletal Injuries" by Jessica B. Calihan, et al. The article discusses pain management in youth seeking emergency care for musculoskeletal injuries.

💬 Editorial: Randomized clinical trials by Ali et al found no incremental benefit of #hydromorphone over ibuprofen for acute musculoskeletal pain in children and adolescents and highlighted higher rates of adverse events with #opioid use.

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#Maine spent $3M in #opioid settlement funds in 2025, according to new data, leaving more than $19M in funds that have yet to be spent. @emilykbader.bsky.social sits down with NewsCenter Maine to discuss how those funds are being spent.

Editor Erin Rhoda breaks down the week's stories, including how local governments in #Maine spent their share of #opioid settlement funds. How Knox County is caught in a legal bind. And about how Paganism is on the rise in Maine. Read all these and more free: themainemonitor.org

Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts and the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine Establish the National Methadone Access and Quality Commission New national commission brings together leading experts to improve access to high-quality, patient-centered, evidence-based treatment for opioid use...

New national commission brings together leading experts to improve access to high-quality, patient-centered, evidence-based treatment for #opioid use disorder.

Opioid use in pregnancy has more than doubled A recent study using California data links a sharp rise in opioid use to poor outcomes for mothers and babies.

The rate of #opioid use in #pregnancy more than doubled in 12 years. www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2026/01/...

Unique Opportunity to Personalize Deep Brain Stimulation for Severe Opioid Use Disorder Yields Highly Specific Target & Clinical Remission in a Patient | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Researchers co-led by BBRF grantees have conducted a clinical test of a new way to target deep-brain stimulation (DBS)-based treatments to prevent drug craving and relapse in a patient with longstanding and severe opioid use disorder (OUD).

Unique clinical test suggests strategy for personalizing deep-brain stimulation treatment for life-threatening #opioid #addiction.
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How much is Maine spending on addiction treatment and recovery? Here’s how Maine’s counties, cities and towns used their opioid settlement funds in 2025, and who was involved in the decisions.

@emilykbader breaks down how Maine’s counties, cities and towns used their #opioid settlement funds in 2025, and who was involved in the decisions. Read her findings for free at the link 👇

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Local governments spent $3M in opioid settlement funds in 2025 Money from the opioid settlement funds went to addiction treatment in jails, behavioral health workers, recovery centers and more.

ICYMI: Data shows that just over 40% of #opioid settlement funds in #Maine went to police and jails. Counties and municipalities spent the most on harm reduction and treatment efforts, while prevention programs received the least. Read more from @emilykbader.bsky.social for free