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  • “Empowering Post-Surgical Patients to Improve Opioid Disposal: A Before and After Quality Improvement Study,” Jessica M. Hasak, MPH, Carrie L. Roth Bettlach, NP, Katherine B. Santosa, MD, Ellen L. Larson, BA, Jean Stroud, RN, MBA, BSN, Susan E. Mackinnon, MD, FACS
  • Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (Michigan-OPEN)
    • Michigan-OPEN opioid disposal instruction brochure
    • Michigan-OPEN Free Medication Take-Back Program
  • “Drug crisis is pushing up death rates for almost all groups of Americans,” The Washington Post, Joel Achenbach and Dan Keating, June 9, 2017
  • “Safe medicine disposal options,” U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA.gov, Douglas Throckmorton, M.D.
  • “Fact Sheet – FDA Opioids Action Plan,” U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA.gov
  • “Disposal of Unused Medicines: What You Should Know,” U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA.gov
  • “A Proactive Response to Prescription Opioid Abuse,” The New England Journal of Medicine, Robert M. Califf, M.D., Janet Woodcock, M.D., and Stephen Ostroff, M.D., April 14, 2016
  • “The Opioid Epidemic: By the Numbers,” U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, HHS.gov
  • “Prescription Nation 2016: Addressing America’s Drug Epidemic,” National Safety Council
  • “Opioid Addiction 2016 Facts & Figures,” American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)
  • “The Hidden Epidemic: Opioid Addiction Among Older Adults,” Experience, American Bar Association, Mary W. Carter, Ph.D., June/July, 2017
  • “America’s Addiction to Opioids: Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse,” National Institute on Drug Abuse, presented by Nora D. Volkow, M.D.
  • “Understanding the Epidemic,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC.gov

Contact Us

  • Email
    khoffman@zipoutopioids.org
  • Phone
    (816) 714-3058
  • Address
    The National Zip-Out Unused Opioids Foundation
    P.O. Box 45090
    Kansas City, MO 64171-8090

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