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1/ New JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine: <2% of buprenorphine Rx are abandoned (not filled) A $10 increase in cost-sharing would increase abandonment by just 0.09 pp. Eliminating cost-sharing should be coupled with other interventions to increase buprenorphine use. U-M IHPI link.springer.com/article/10.100…

3/ This finding suggests efforts to increase buprenorphine use might focus on barriers to receiving an Rx in the first place. It also suggests low rates of buprenorphine retention are driven by a lack of receipt of more Rx, not barriers after Rx receipt. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

I am looking to hire a senior-level statistician at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The statistician will be part of our multidisciplinary research team and will work on NIH-funded R01 projects related to the opioid epidemic. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/252…

In their new Forefront article, Thuy Nguyen, Barbara "Basia" Andraka-Christou, Kyle Buchwalder, W. David Bradford, + Kosali Simon from University of Michigan, UCF, UGA, + IU Bloomington discuss how more regulatory improvements to the methadone treatment system are needed. bit.ly/3M61dTR

In this article, we've discussed the current policy momentum towards modernizing methadone treatment regulations and how methadone is an effective treatment for patients with fentanyl use disorder.

Congrats to our 2025 Emerging Scholars, Dr. Jade Burns of @umichnursing and Thuy Nguyen of Michigan Public Health! They will present their work and connect with fellow researchers at our peer institutes Penn LDI UCSF IHPS this spring. ihpi.umich.edu/2025-emerging-…

Thank you for the annoucement! It is a great honor to be selected as an IHPI Emerging Scholar this year. I look forward to connecting with fellow researchers UCSF IHPS in March.

Thank you for hosting me tomorrow. I'm thrilled about this opportunity to share my work with amazing health policy scholars and fellows at UCSF IHPS. I look forward to it!

This is an incredibly important paper that I think all professors TAs, curriculum designers, EdTech developers working on AI tutoring tools, educational policy makers, academic administrators and et al. should read it

Annual universal depression screening for adolescents is cost-effective at $54K/QALY & $72/depression-free day vs. usual care. This highlights the need for stronger support for adolescent mental health in primary care settings. Grateful to Lisa Prosser PhD Davene R. Wright, PhD David Hutton!

Check out our new Milbank Memorial Fund & The Milbank Quarterly issue brief!

A new paper by Thuy Nguyen & colleagues in Health Affairs finds persistent disparities in which patients who seek emergency care for opioid overdose go on to receive medication to treat opioid addiction: healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…

New pub Health Affairs: only 1 in 16 ED visits for overdose resulted in new prescriptions for opioid addiction meds. Initiation rates differ by race and ethnicity among Medicaid patients. Kao-Ping Chua Pooja Lagisetty Amy Bohnert Keith Kocher NIDAnews healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…

New research led by Dr. Geoffrey Hoffman of UMSN finds that older adults are more likely to leave Medicare Advantage due to issues with access and quality of care, rather than the cost. The study was also published in Health Affairs. ➡️ myumi.ch/y1kjn

Health care employment growth decreased amid the COVID-19 pandemic but fully recovered by 2024. #ARM25 AcademyHealth ja.ma/4dNFWLX

I’m excited to speak at the upcoming ASRA Pain Medicine webinar on Cannabis and Surgery this Tuesday, June 10, from 4-5 pm ET with Raj Gupta, MD, FASRA and Dr. Asike Join us to explore the impact of cannabinoids on surgical care. Anesthesiologists, surgeons, physicians, nurses, and anyone