Reading Group Events
February 22, 2024: Hospitalizations for Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorders in Older Adults: Trends, Comorbidities, and Differences by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity
Join us to discuss the work of Andrea Acevedo and colleagues! Increasing numbers of adults aged 65+ years are being diagnosed with alcohol and opioid use disorders. Researchers understand relatively little about older people who are hospitalized for these conditions....
November 16, 2023: Predictors of Retention and Drug Use Among Patients With Opioid Use Disorder Transferred to a Specialty “Second Chance” Methadone Program
Join us to discuss the work of Tabitha Moses and colleagues!One barrier to treatment for people in recovery is that many treatment programs require sobriety. Researchers designed a “Second Change” methadone program for people who had been discharged from other...
October 2023: Mobile low-threshold buprenorphine integrated with infectious disease services
Join us to discuss the work of Amanda Rosecrans and colleagues!Mobile health units are an innovative approach to improving access to substance use treatment and recovery services, especially when these are integrated with other clinical programs. This study describes...
September 2023: Understanding stigma through the lived experiences of people with opioid use disorder
Join us to discuss the work of Yaugher, Meier, and colleagues! Stigma towards substance use impacts people’s successful treatment and recovery. By understanding stigma surrounding opioid use disorder (OUD), we can work to reduce stigma and enhance treatment and...
August 2023: A qualitative analysis of barriers to opioid agonist treatment for racial/ethnic minoritized populations
Join us to discuss the work of Jawad Husain and colleagues! Racial/ethnic minoritized populations with opioid use disorder (OUD) use opioid agonist therapy (OAT) at lower rates. This study interviewed patients with OUD not on OAT: commonly cited barriers to OAT among...
July 2023: Meeting people where they are: Implementing hospital-based substance use harm reduction
Join us to discuss the work of Rachel Perera and colleagues! Hospital-based substance use disorder care typically focuses on assessing and diagnosing substance use disorders, helping people with withdrawal symptoms, and starting patients on medications for addiction...
June 2023: Successful Substance Use Disorder Recovery on Transitional Housing: Perspectives from African American Women
Join us to discuss the work of Emma Kreuger and colleagues! This article looks at how African American women live in cities in America, and how their lives are affected by poverty, racism, and sexism. To create social change in recovery, programs must think about the...
April 2023: The role of the “Peer Recovery/Support Worker” in substance use treatment services in the UK and the US
Join us to discuss the work of Wiktor Kulik and Amar Shah! This study describes a project in the Tower Hamlets borough of London, at the Specialist Addictions Unit, the “Breakfast Club,” a patient meeting about recovery with less focus on medical treatment. The...
March 2023: The Cost of Caring: Compassion Fatigue Among Peer Overdose Response Workers in British Columbia
Join us to discuss the work of Zahra Mamdani and colleagues! The drug overdose crisis has had dramatic effects on people who use drugs. Peer overdose response workers (peer responders), are people with lived/living experience of drug use who work in overdose response...
February 2023: Xylazine and Overdose: Trends, Concerns, and Recommendations
Join us to discuss the work of Alexander Carver and colleagues! Xylazine (pronounced “zye-lah-zeen”) is a drug that is used in veterinary practice to keep animals calm, prevent them from feeling pain and help them sleep during medical procedures. Xylazine is being...