Recommended Reading
Opioid Epidemic Impact
- Enquirer and Media Network of Central Ohio. Seven Days of Heroin
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Quick Stats: Rates of Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Heroin,* by Selected Age Groups — United States, 2006–2015
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2010–2015
- Medical Care. The Economic Burden of Prescription Opioid Overdose, Abuse, and Dependence in the United States, 2013
- CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
- Treatment utilization among persons with opioid use disorder in the United States
The Syndemic
- The Washington Post. Another outbreak related to the nation’s opioid crisis: hepatitis C
- National Institute on Drug Abuse. Viral Hepatitis—A Very Real Consequence of Substance Use
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Increases in Hepatitis C Virus Infection Related to Injection Drug Use Among Persons Aged ≤30 Years — Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, 2006–2012
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Graph: New Hepatitis C Infections since 2010
- CNN. “New hepatitis C infections triple due to opioid epidemic”
- The PEW Charitable Trusts. With Opioid Crisis, a Surge in Hepatitis C
- Richard Wolitski, Ph.D., Director, Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Interconnected, Intertwined, and Colliding: Co-Occurring Epidemics of HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Opioids
- Jon E. Zibbell, PhD, Alice K. Asher, PhD, Rajiv C. Patel, MPH, Ben Kupronis, MPH, Kashif Iqbal, MPH, John W. Ward, MD, and Deborah Holtzman, PhD. Increases in Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection Related to a Growing Opioid Epidemic and Associated Injection Drug Use, United States, 2004 to 2014
Hepatitis C, Opioid Addiction Treatment, and Self-Efficacy
- Toronto Centre for Liver Disease. Hepatitis C Screening May Boost Opioid Treatment Success
- Clinical Infectious Diseases. Sustained Drug Use Changes After Hepatitis C Screening and Counseling Among Recently Infected Persons Who Inject Drugs: A Longitudinal Study
- Hepatitis C screening and treatment outcomes in patients with substance use/dependence disorders.
- AIDS. A peer-education intervention to reduce injection risk behaviors for HIV and hepatitis C virus infection in young injection drug users.
- Community Mental Health. Hope and Abstinence Self-Efficacy: Positive Predictors of Negative Affect in Substance Abuse Recovery
- Addiction Behavior. The Role of Self-Efficacy in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
Policy
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. State HCV Incidence and Policies Related to HCV Preventive and Treatment Services for Persons Who Inject Drugs — United States, 2015–2016
- Final Report: The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
- Recommendations of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy to the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
- The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. ENDING THE OPIOID CRISIS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR STATE POLICYMAKERS
Treatment and Program Considerations
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Health Security. Serving the Greater Good: Public Health and Community Pharmacy Partnerships PAGE 11-12
- National Public Radio. “Syringe Exchange Program Aims To Slow Hepatitis C Infections In Alaska”
- Jama Internal Medicine. Association of Opioid Agonist Therapy with Lower Incidence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Young Adult Injection Drug Users
- Substance Abuse. Hepatitis Infection in the Treatment of Opioid Dependence and Abuse
- International Journal of Drug Policy. An international perspective on using opioid substitution treatment to improve hepatitis C prevention and care for people who inject drugs: structural barriers and public health potential
- New England Journal of Medicine. IS IT JUSTIFIABLE TO WITHHOLD TREATMENT FOR HEPATITIS C FROM ILLICIT-DRUG USERS?
- JAMA. Confronting the Stigma of Opioid Use Disorder—and Its Treatment
- C-SCOPE Topline Results
- Perceived Barriers Related to the Management of HCV Infection Among Physicians Prescribing Opioid Agonist Therapy: The C-SCOPE Study
- Self-Reported Competency Related to Testing, Management and Treatment of HCV Infection Among Physicians Prescribing Opioid Agonist Therapy: The C-SCOPE Study