Rebecca Arden Harris, MD MSc

Women aged 25 to 34 years comprised a rising proportion of this burden. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Finally in "print" - our paper on years of life lost (YLL) to drug overdose among Black women. Over the 7-year study period (2015-2021), preventable overdose deaths among Black female individuals resulted in nearly 0.75 million YLL.

Our new study adds to the body of work done by @honoraenglander, @zoeweinstein, @drsarahwakemen @DrMelissaWeimer showing #addiction medicine consult services are important tools to improve the health of people with substance use disorders. AMCS teams are #lifesavinginterventions

A Senate bill would establish a federal excise tax on prescription opioids and use block-grants to distribute revenue to expand access to treatment. In @JAMAHealthForum, @ArdenHarrisMD, @DSMandell & Robert Gross say that's unworkable in its current form. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-…

Five states (Delaware, Main, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island) have enacted opioid taxes or fee, and Congress is considering a national opioid tax, SB 1723, to help fund treatment programs. But there are serious problems with the bill. Our viewpoint in JAMA Health Forum.

Check out this new study from LDI Fellows @m_lowenstein, @kit_delgadoMD, and @JMPerroneMD.⤵️

“The magnitude of the drug overdose crisis demands out-of-the-box thinking & willingness to jettison old, unhelpful, and unsupported assumptions about what treatment & recovery need to look like,” @NIDAnews Director Dr. Nora Volkow writes in @Health_Affairs Forefront. 🧵[1/2]

In a @PhillyInquirer op-ed, LDI Fellows Rebecca Arden Harris, @rachel_e_french, @shoshiaronowitz, & @DSMandell call on Pennsylvania to stop treating overdose deaths as homicides through a criminal charge called 'drug delivery resulting in death'. inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

Big week for our team with another study out in @annalsofem. This one describes the impact of several years of work from many people in @pennmedicine EDs to increase evidence-based treatment for patients with opioid use disorder annemergmed.com/article/S0196-…

Check out this great op-ed from friend and colleague @shoshiaronowitz. Important messaging around the overdose crisis. Media take note! @PennLDI @PennNursing medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…

@nejmcatalyst report on redesigning OUD screening & tx in ED by my colleagues @ Penn. @m_lowenstein et al., used participatory design process to develop nurse-driven protocol w OUD screening in ED triage coupled w automated prompts to providers to perform OUD assessment & tx

@nejmcatalyst report on redesigning OUD screening & tx in ED by my colleagues @ Penn. @m_lowenstein et al., used participatory design process to develop nurse-driven protocol w OUD screening in ED triage coupled with automated prompts to providers to perform OUD assessment & tx

NY City opens first legal supervised injection sites in the U.S. During the first day of operation at the two Manhattan facilities, staff reversed two overdoses! nytimes.com/2021/11/30/nyr…

Let’s make sure the settlement money goes into opioid prevention and treatment (and doesn’t disappear into Pennsylvania’s General Fund to cover ordinary expenditures). post-gazette.com/business/healt…