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Researchers receive a $1.1 million NIH grant to implement a telehealth platform for opioid use disorder
Over the past two decades, the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States has increased several fold, with over 70% of drug deaths in 2019 involving opioids. Connecticut, in particular, is among the ten states with the highest rates of opioid-related overdose deaths in the country, with that number increasing 285% from 2012 to 2020. The National Institutes of Health has awarded CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) Associate Professor Nasim Sabounchi and Yale School of Medicine Associate Professor Rebekah Heckmann a two-year fellowship of...
Researchers receive a $1.1 million NIH grant to implement a telehealth platform for opioid use disorder
Over the past two decades, the number of drug overdose deaths in the United States has increased several fold, with over 70% of drug deaths in 2019 involving opioids. Connecticut, in particular, is among the ten states with the highest rates of opioid-related overdose deaths in the country, with that number increasing 285% from 2012 to 2020.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a two-year, $1,147,508 grant to CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) Associate Professor Nasim Sabounchi and Yale School of Medicine Associate Professor Rebekah Heckmann to create a new Testing an evidence-based intervention connects people who have overdosed with access to opioid use disorder medications, harm reduction services, and recovery support.
Sabounchi, Heckmann and colleagues will implement a comprehensive telehealth platform that can be deployed at the scene of an overdose or in the emergency room with minimal time and effort for existing staff. The platform will provide real-time access to providers prescribing medications for opioid use disorder and other harm reduction services for high-risk individuals, potentially eliminating many of the barriers to follow-up care these individuals face.
Researchers will collect high-quality data on the processes and outcomes associated with deploying this platform in Connecticut that can be integrated into their existing system dynamics model to determine how or whether interventions should be implemented more broadly in the future.
There is a great need to accelerate and facilitate access to medications for opioid use disorders and to respond effectively to observed overdoses. Our long-term goal is to implement these novel system dynamics modeling and telehealth strategies in Connecticut and then expand nationwide to ultimately improve access to medications and reduce overdose events and deaths.”
Nasim Sabounchi, Associate Professor, CUNY SPH
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