This resource provides access to each edition of the Northern California Training Academy's child welfare practice journal Reaching Out.
This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:
"As the opioid epidemic wages on, few solutions to the global problem have proven effective. Efforts to more heavily control how opioids are prescribed have not only created illicit markets for the drugs, but they’ve also made it difficult for the millions living with chronic pain. So if targeting access is problematic, where could the focus lie? According to a new study, one option is evaluating the method of delivery. Data showed that switching patients from systemic opioids, including opioids delivered orally or transdermally, to medications administered by an intrathecal drug delivery system reduced overall systemic opioid dosing levels. This was also correlated with a percentage of patients discontinuing systemic opioids altogether and thousands of dollars of savings in medical costs. The authors of the study reviewed healthcare claims data for 631 patients with an intrathecal drug delivery system for chronic non-cancer pain..."
The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.