Learn How New Opioid Prescriptions Can Impact Future Use
CECPR Director Zachary Meisel, MD and colleagues published research looking at how new opioid prescriptions from the Emergency Department...
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Jeanmarie Perrone, MD Chosen as Panelist at 2019 Penn Silfen Forum
Jeanmarie Perrone, MD will serve as a panelist at the 2019 University of Pennsylvania David and Lyn Silfen forum titled: "Is there an...
Austin Kilaru, MD Receives Multiple Grants
Austin Kilaru, MD receives multiple grants exploring policy approaches to implementing evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder....
Penn Team Opioid 'Sprained Ankle' Study Generates Media Impact
A Penn study detailing wide variation in emergency department opioid prescribing for sprained ankles has generated widespread media...
Limiting Opioid Prescriptions to Three Days
CECPR's own Kit Delgado was part of team that published a perspective paper in the New England Journal of Medicine on recent legislative...
Opioid Pills for a Simple Sprained Ankle? It’s a Thing in Some States.
Many states have responded to the national opioid epidemic by limiting how many pain pills doctors can prescribe, contributing to the...
Penn Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine's CECPR takes on Philadelphia’s opioid epidemic
Penn Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine is leveraging its expertise to fight the city’s opioid crisis on multiple fronts. Go to...
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs can Reduce the Overuse of Narcotics
The New York Times reports on new research showing that prescription drug monitoring programs can reduce the overuse of narcotics, but...
Prevention at the Point of Pain
Penn Medicine clinicians and scientists examine where it begins: The causes & treatment of pain. Penn EM's Zachary Meisel, MD & Jeanmarie...
Study finds one in three Philadelphia residents used an opioid last year
Emergency Medicine's Jeanmarie Perrone, MD comments. Go to article
EM Represented in Philly Opioid Task Force
EM's Zachary Meisel, MD, Jeanmarie Perrone, MD, and C. Crawford Mechem, MD serve on the subcommittee for Philadelphia's "Mayor’s Task...
Even short-term opioid use can set people up for addiction risks
A SAEM (Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) plenary presentation by M. Kit Delgado, MD, Jeanmarie Perrone, MD, Zachary Meisel, MD,...
Christie set to impose pain pill limits despite N.J. doctors' objections
EM's Jeanmarie Perrone, MD is quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article discussing a new plan, proposed by Gov. Chris Christie, to...
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