Journal Club

Each month during the Fall and Spring Semester of each academic year, DIDARP project staff partner with the College of Public Health to host a Prescription Drug Abuse/Misuse themed Journal Club that sets the stage for the monthly ACCME Grand Rounds event.

The list of journal club events along with the articles discussed:

Thursday, November 17, 2016, "Survey Research: Response Rates and Sensitive Questions."  The presenter was Morgan Jones, MA. Click on the article to view the abstract:

• Factors affecting response rates of the web survey: A systematic review
  
  
• Asking sensitive questions: The impact of data collection mode, question format, and question context

Wednesday, September 28, 2016, "Prescription Drug Disposal."  The presenter was KariLynn Dowling, PharmD. Click on the article to view the abstract:

• Prescription disposal practices: A 2-year ecological study of drug drop box donations in Appalachia

Thursday, October 29, 2015, "Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)."The presenter was Olivia Egen, MPH, DrPH candidate. Click on the article to view the abstract:

• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Treatment and Pediatric Outcomes 

• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Associated Health Care Expenditures: United States, 2000-2009

Monday, March 30, 2015, "Prescription Drug Abuse: Perspectives and Treatment." The presenters were Ronald Carico Jr., PharmD-MPH Dual Degree Candidate and Daniel Ventricelli, PharmD, Pharmacy Practice Research Fellow. Click on the article to view the abstract:

• Factors Associated With Provision of Addiction Treatment Information by Community Pharmacists

• Prescription drug abuse: a comparison of prescriber and pharmacist perspectives

Thursday, March 5, 2015,"Program Evaluation and Naloxone." The presenters were Rahul Paul Choudhury, BS, MPH Student and James Fey, BS, MPH Student. Click on the article to view the abstract: 

• Police officers' and paramedics' experiences with overdose and their knowledge and opinions of Washington State's drug overdose-naloxone-Good Samaritan law
  

• Opioid overdose rates and implementation of overdose education and nasal naloxone distribution in Massachusetts: interrupted time series analysis

Monday, February 2, 2015,"Stimulant Misuse and Abuse." The presenters were Dr. Jeff Gray PharmD,CDE, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Ron Carico, BS, PharmD/MPH Student. Click on the article to view the abstract:

• A systematic review of the safety of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate

• Agonist-like pharmacotherapy for stimulant dependence: preclinical, human laboratory, and clinical studies

Thursday, October 16, 2014,"Preventive Strategies in Opioid Abuse." The presenters were Rachel Dean, BS, MPH Student and Sara Warfield, BS, MPH Student. Click on the article to view the abstract:

• Assessing the reproductive health needs of non-pregnant women in treatment

• Predictive Validity in the Communities that Care Survey

Monday, September 15, 2014, "Examining the mental health workforce, educating the vulnerable: Prescription drug addiction." The presenters were Dan Ventricelli, PharmD and Sara Warfield, BS, MPH Student. Click on the article to view the abstract: 

• High risk and little knowledge: Overdose experiences and knowledge among young adult non medical prescription opioid users

• Rural Mental Health Workforce Needs Assessment - a national survey

For more information contact Angela Hagaman at hagaman@etsu.edu.