PaStop.org is Pennsylvania’s new hub for information on opiate use, addiction, and treatment.
Evidence-Based and Best Practices
The Things We Carry to Our Last Job*
Part of the ongoing series “High School Confidential: In the Trenches with Substance-Using Teenagers” by Dr. Peter Cohen.
The Devil is in the Details: Overdose Prevention in Pennsylvania
In November 2014, Pennsylvania’s Act 139 went into effect. Designed to prevent overdose deaths, it focused primarily on increasing access to naloxone, a medication that reverses overdose caused by prescription opioid pain relievers and heroin. These policy changes have opened up certain possibilities, but that’s a far cry from making them happen.
If It Can Happen in Austin, Indiana…
One is apt to think of an HIV epidemic in large cities or in under-developed areas around the world. In 2015, an HIV outbreak in the rural Midwest has lessons for us all.
My First Day at High School, The Second Time Around
Part of the ongoing series “High School Confidential: In the Trenches with Substance-Using Teenagers.”
High School Confidential: In the Trenches with Substance-Using Teenagers
First in a series of blog posts by child and adolescent psychiatrist Peter Cohen.
Creative Responses to Youth Substance Use
Young people are creative–we should be, too. Learn about the Hilton Foundation’s flexible approach to SBIRT for youth.
Separate Medication from Level of Care
We would help a lot more people with opioid use disorders and quell a lot of criticism if we stopped using this inaccurate paradigm in addiction treatment.
Standardized patients are powerful simulation technology
Learning SBIRT with standardized patients helps students “practice saying the words themselves.”
A person experiencing an opioid overdose needs oxygen and/or naloxone to survive
New ways to incorporate overdose prevention, response, and experience into substance use disorder treatment.
