ResearchProjects

Opioid use disorder is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality across the U.S, and yet there are continued challenges for engagement and retention of patients in evidence-based treatment. The study will aim to link multiple longitudinal administrative databases and apply novel methodological approaches to characterize real-world opioid use disorder treatment trajectories following opioid-related hospital encounters, and assess their relationship to subsequent hospitalization, overdose and mortality outcomes.

Through a unique partnership between academic researchers, the nation’s largest public hospital system, and government leaders in New York City, this project will advance knowledge on complex and heterogenous OUD care trajectories and help shed evidence on health-system and treatment interventions that have the greatest potential to reduce overdose death and improve population health.