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Feb 26, 2025
Testimony presented before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging on February 26, 2025.
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Bradley Stein, director of RAND's Opioid Policy, Tools and Information Center and a practicing psychiatrist, will testify before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging during a hearing on combatting the opioid epidemic.
Research
Jan 23, 2025
This longitudinal study examines state policies' effects on per-capita opioid morphine milligram equivalents (MME) dispensed at retail pharmacies in the United States from 2006 through 2018.
Sep 23, 2024
Socioeconomic disadvantage may drive pain disparities among AI/AN emerging adults and act as a barrier to benefitting from visiting tribal lands. Results support a biopsychosocial approach to targeting pain in this population.
Sep 19, 2024
Using a difference-in-differences framework and Medicare claims data, we find that Pain Management Clinic Laws reduce problematic opioid prescribing and doctor shopping. We also estimate reductions in overdose death rates among the full population.
Jul 29, 2024
This study examines trends in the perioperative opioid dispensing rates for fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries and the effects of select state policies.
This study examines how prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), pain management clinic regulations, initial prescription duration limits, and mandatory continued medical education affected total and high-dose prescribing.
Apr 17, 2024
Depressive symptoms are common in knee osteoarthritis, and may exacerbate pain severity or impact efficacy of analgesics. The aim was to assess whether oral analgesic effectiveness in knee osteoarthritis varies by fluctuations in depressive symptoms.
Apr 12, 2024
To evaluate the associations between demographics, health conditions, pain management strategies, and health-related quality-of-life measures with pain management strategies at 3-month follow-up in respondents reporting current low-back pain.
Oct 30, 2023
Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of two behavioral nudges, one based on peer behavior and one based on best practice guidelines, in reducing excessive postoperative opioid prescriptions.
Sep 13, 2023
Palliative care and addiction experts considered continuing opioids, increasing monitoring, and avoiding opioid tapering in the context of cancer-related pain and nonmedical stimulant use to be appropriate.
Aug 29, 2023
An effective approach to the opioid crisis requires primary prevention strategies to reduce unnecessary opioid initiation. Opioid settlement funds should be directed toward these strategies by leveraging nonpharmacological pain management.
