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Research Agenda

TSRG believes in a collaborative, multipronged approach and selects research topics, community partnerships, and grant opportunities that enable a patchwork of solutions

Agenda

The hurdle remains high when working to address the opioid crisis or provide support for patients experiencing physical dependency from benzodiazepines or benzodiazepine-induced neurological dysfunction (BIND). TSRG continues to work to identify strategies to help facilitate a path forward. TSRG believes in a collaborative, multipronged approach and selects research topics, community partnerships, and grant opportunities that enable a patchwork of solutions.

Artwork created by Akhtar Badshah (Kirkland, WA).

Research Topics

Analyses of public and organizational stigma as it relates to people who use drugs and receive treatment
Comparison of opioid response and prevention strategies across urban and rural areas
The impact of state-level prescribing policies on opioid-related overdose death rates
Local government policy program activities in response to the opioid crisis
Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) service provision in rural county jails
Network analysis of collaboration
Opioid and benzodiazepine prescribing, tapering, and healing
Racial and ethnic disparities in substance use service provision
Workforce development opportunities for people in recovery

Community Events & Collaborations

Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) in Jails Project
Funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts
(August 2023 - September 2024)

SB 21 - 137
TSRG conducted outreach to criminal justice facilities in a 9-county region of Southern Colorado regarding Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) service provision
(January 2022 - May 2023).
Funded project with Valley-Wide Health Systems and the Rural Recovery Network.

A University of Colorado Office of Research Services (ORS) funded project with the University of Colorado School of Public Affairs (2020-2021)

Challenge School Wellness Week Drug Prevention Programming (2019)

Benzodiazepine Action Work Group (BAWG) Founding Member and Work Group Participant (2021 - 2025).

Las Animas School District Substance Abuse Prevention & Intervention Project
Funded by the Colorado Trust (June 2023 - May 2024)

American Rescue Plan (ARPA) funded project through the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Benzodiazepine Action Work Group (BAWG) to develop and facilitate a peer recovery support specialist training (2022 - 2024)

Professional Development Experience
(PDE - Summers 2022 - 2024).

Host organization: Mandela Washington Fellows,
Participants from Djibouti, Zambia and Lesotho.

Tri-County Overdose Prevention Partnership (2019-2021)

Conferences & Events

Colorado Pharmacist Society Presentation Benzodiazepine Induced Neurological Dysfunction (BIND) with Dr. Alexis Ritvo (June 2024).

Rx and Illicit Drug Summit Poster Presentation A Qualitative Assessment of the Availability of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) in Rural Southern Colorado County Jails (April 2023)

Colorado Rural Health Center (CRHC) Forum The Substance Use Crisis: Integrating Research and Community Outreach to Improve Outcomes in Rural Colorado (April 2022)

Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Symposium (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, November 2020)

National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) 360 Conference (Virtual, July 2020)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)(Denver, CO, November 2019)

A Path Forward/Safety Jam A Community Approach to Reduce Overdose in Southeast Colorado, La Junta, Colorado in partnership with the Otero County Health Department and American Medical Response (AMR) (June 2024).

Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Symposium (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, October 2019)

Colorado Behavioral Health & Wellness Summit
(University of Denver, October 2019)

Benzo-Wise Colorado and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Meeting (2019)

Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Symposium (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, October 2018)

American Society for Public Administration Conference (ASPA) (Denver, CO, March 2018)

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