Research – The Schreiber Research Group

Research

Research Agenda

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

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-assisted treatment service provision in rural county jails
Network analysis of collaboration
Opioid and benzodiazepine prescribing, tapering, and healing
Racial and ethnic disparities in service provision

Publications

DiNardi M, Swann WL, Kim SY. Racial/ethnic residential segregation and the availability of opioid and substance use treatment facilities in US counties, 2009–2019, SSM - Population Health, Volume 20, 2022, 101289, ISSN 2352-8273.

Swann WL, DiNardi M, Schreiber TL. Association Between Interorganizational Collaboration in Opioid Response and Treatment Capacity for Opioid Use Disorder in Counties of Five States: A Cross-Sectional Study. Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment. January 2022.

Swann WL, Schreiber TL, Kim SY, McNeely H, Hong JH. Perceived impact of COVID-19 on prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and recovery services for opioid use disorder: National survey of local health departments. Subst Abus. 2022;43:993-998.

DiNardi M. The release of abuse-deterrent OxyContin and adolescent heroin use. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021;229:109114.

Swann, W. L., Kim, S., Kim, S. Y., & Schreiber, T. L. Urban‐Rural Disparities in Opioid Use Disorder Prevention and Response Activities: A Cross‐Sectional Analysis. The Journal of Rural Health. 2020.

Swann, WL., Schreiber, TL., Wright, SL., Davis, MW., Kim, S., Kim, SY., & Lamiotte, M. Local Policy and Programmatic Activity to Address the US Opioid Crisis: A Cross-Sectional Survey of County Governments. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: JPHMP. 2020

Wright SL. Limited utility for benzodiazepines in chronic pain management: a narrative review. Adv Ther. 2020;37: 2604-2619. DOI: 10.1007/s12325-020-01354-6

Community Events & Collaborations

A Health Resources & Servcies Administration (HRSA) funded implementation project with Bent, Conejos, Crowley, and Otero counties (36 months).

A SB-21-137 funded project with Valley-Wide Health Systems and the Rural Recovery Network. TSRG is conducting outreach to all criminal justice facilities in a 9-county region of Southern Colorado regarding the Medication-Assisted Treatment needs and service levels for the criminal-justice-involved populations (18 months).

A Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Planning grant project with the Pueblo Department of Public Health and Environment (PDPHE); Conejos, Crowley, and Otero Counties Public Health Departments (18 months)

Tri-County Overdose Prevention Partnership (2019-2021)

Challenge School Wellness Week (2019)

Host organization: Mandela Washington Fellows, Professional Development Experience (PDE - Summer 2022)

Presentation: Community Opioid Response Research and Outreach Colorado Student Leaders Institute (COSLI), University of Colorado Denver (July 2022)

An American Rescue Plan (ARPA) funded project with the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Benzodiazepine Action Work Group (BAWG) to develop a peer recovery support specialist training to support people experiencing benzodiazepine-induced neurologic dysfunction (BIND).

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

Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention (2016 - present)

Conferences & Events

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: Limited Utility of Benzodiazepines in Chronic Pain Management (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, November 2020)

National Association of County and City Health Officials – NACCHO 360: Raising the Reach of Public Health (Virtual, July 2020)

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference (Denver, CO, November 2019)

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 (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)