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OPEN Sunsets Two Current Offerings; Welcomes Four Brand New Programs going into 2025
On December 13th, OPEN officially sunsetted two of its community programs; Medication Disposal Products and Safe Storage Locking Pill Bottles. Together, these programs helped thousands of people across Michigan. Final awards will be sent to organizations during the beginning of 2025. The Medication Disposal Products program allowed organizations to apply to receive Deterra Medication Pouches […]Mar 2, 2022
The Surgeon’s Role In Preventing Opioid Abuse
One of our founders, Dr. Michael Englesbe, recently spoke on the Opioid Conversations with Surgeons podcast, hosted by the Pennsylvania-New Jersey Surgical Opioid Stewardship program. Dr. Englesbe spoke on the topic of opioid use in surgery, multi-modal pain care, creating opioid prescribing guidelines and more. Note: the episode is about 25 minutes long.Feb 16, 2022
Read our Winter 2022 Newsletter
Spring 2022 Take Back Event date announced, new research from our team, and more.Feb 14, 2022
‘Narcan 101: How to use it, why it works and how to get it.’ – Detroit Free Press
Check out this article from the Detroit Free Press, featuring Keith Kocher, MD, one of our board members and the director of the MEDIC program, with whom we work with to distribute naloxone in Emergency Departments around the state. Click here to find out where you can access naloxone.Feb 3, 2022
“Michigan network takes preventive approach to address rising opioid overdoses”
Our work was the subject of a article published this week by Second Wave Michigan. It is part of a series focusing on health issues in Michigan and the people all across the state doing innovative work to improve health equity. Three of our team leaders are featured in the piece.Jan 13, 2022
Opioid Prescribing for Safe, Effective Postsurgical Pain Management
General Surgery News – “Smarter prescribing of opioids following surgery can help prevent dependence and overuse of these drugs, panelists said at the 2021 virtual American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress. If prescribing opioids, use recommendations established by the Michigan OPEN (Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network).” Check out the full article on the GSN website: READ […]Jan 10, 2022
FREE 3-Hour Buprenorphine training to be held March, 17, 2022.
Hosted by the Michigan OPEN/MEDIC team, this free training is tailored to ED and acute care providers. BCBSM is providing generous financial support, including $500 attendance incentives to ED physicians and APPs in Michigan. If you have any questions please contact Lyle Johnson at lyjo@med.umich.edu or Ellie English at egengli@med.umich.edu.Dec 1, 2021
“Less than 10% of opioid overdose patients are prescribed potentially lifesaving medications after emergency treatment”
Newswise – “As opioid overdose deaths soar during the COVID-19 pandemic, a Michigan Medicine study found that the vast majority of patients treated for opioid overdoses in United States emergency departments don’t receive two potentially lifesaving medications before they leave the hospital or in the weeks soon after.” Check out the full article on the newswise […]Nov 29, 2021
Read our Fall 2021 Newsletter now.
Learn more about our fall Take Back Events, customization requests, featured research and more.Nov 12, 2021
We’ve Completed 220+ Customization Requests.
Michigan OPEN offers free customization requests to our education materials. We’ve completed over 145 requests just in Michigan alone and 228 total. We’ve reached countries as far away as Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and more. Any organization can request that their logo be added to our materials, and they will be co-branded by our team. […]Nov 9, 2021
SOMA D.O. Monster Dash 5K Community Partnership
Michigan OPEN supported the Student Osteopathic Medical Association (SOMA) at Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine. They hosted a 5k this fall, with part of their proceeds benefitting Families Against Narcotics. We provided 250 DeTerra disposal bags and 250 copies of our ‘Safe Storage & Disposal’ stock card for the student organizers to provide […]Nov 5, 2021
Fall 2021 Take Back Event a Success!
Michigan OPEN hosted its fall Take Back Event on Saturday, October 23th with 40 sites participating across the state. 39,420 opioids and 2,032 lbs. of unwanted medications were collected, highlighting the need for take back events even during a pandemic. To keep contact to minimum, many sites provided drive-thru medication disposal. To date, we have held […]Oct 22, 2021