A Research Agenda for Advancing Strategies to Improve Opioid Safety: Findings from a VHA State of the Art Conference

William C. Becker; Erin E. Krebs; Sara N. Edmond; Lewei A. Lin; Mark D. Sullivan; Roger D. Weiss; Adam J. Gordon

doi:10.1007/s11606-020-06260-9

A Research Agenda for Advancing Strategies to Improve Opioid Safety: Findings from a VHA State of the Art Conference

William C. Becker, Erin E. Krebs, Sara N. Edmond, Lewei A. Lin, Mark D. Sullivan, Roger D. Weiss, Adam J. Gordon

Medicine - Veteran's Administration Medical Center

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US military Veterans have been disproportionately impacted by the US opioid overdose crisis. In the fall of 2019, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) convened a state-of-the-art (SOTA) conference to develop research priorities for advancing the science and clinical practice of opioid safety, including both use of opioid analgesics and managing opioid use disorder. We present the methods and consensus recommendations from the SOTA. A core group of researchers and VA clinical stakeholders defined three areas of focus for the SOTA: managing opioid use disorder, long-term opioid therapy for pain including consideration for opioid tapering, and treatment of co-occurring pain and substance use disorders. The SOTA participants divided into three workgroups and identified key questions and seminal studies related to those three areas of focus. The strongest recommendations included testing implementation strategies in the VHA for expanding access to medication treatment for opioid use disorder, testing collaborative tapering programs for patients prescribed long-term opioids, and larger trials of behavioral and exercise/movement interventions for pain among patients with substance use disorders.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	978-982
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of general internal medicine
Volume	35
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06260-9
State	Published - Dec 2020

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The authors wish to acknowledge the SOTA co-chairs and planning committee members who were not involved in writing the manuscript but whose process and products are described herein: David Atkins, MD, MPH; Arlene Bierman, MD, MS; Amy Bohnert, PhD; Karen Drexler, MD; Ellen Edens, MD, MPE; Joseph Frank, MD, MPH; Keith Humphreys, PhD; Christopher Jones, PharmD, MPH; Audrey Kusiak, PhD; Ismene Petrakis, MD; Friedhelm Sandbrink, MD; Joanna Starrels, MD, MHS.

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