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Mishka Terplan MD MPH FACOG FASAMProfessor Departments OBGYN and Psychiatry
Associate Director Addiction MedicineMedical Director MOTIVATE
Virginia Commonwealth University
The Opioid Crisis in the U.S.
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Disclosures
• Addiction Medicine Consultant for Virginia Medicaid• Consultant for National Center Substance Abuse and Child
Welfare
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Objectives
• Discuss information about opioids• Discuss the epidemiology of addiction• Describe how addiction varies across gender and sex – unique
vulnerabilities of women, and• Discuss lessons from the opioid crisis
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Opioids, Reproduction and Gender: Demeter
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Eugene Grasset, La Morphinomane, 1897 color lithograph
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Turn of the Century Treatment: Addiction is a disease
• Addiction – seen as medical condition and treated like one– Short acting opioids – Specialty clinics – detoxification and
maintenance– Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome first
described (and treated)
Dr Benjamin Rush
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The Current Opioid Crisis:
IatrogenicMMWR 11/4/11
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Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths, U.S., 1999-2015
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Sex and Gender Differences
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Women and Pain
• Pain related to reproductive anatomy/physiology– Menstrual, Pregnancy, Endometriosis,
• Pain (syndromes) not related but more common in women– Fibromyalgia, Migraines, Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Gender and Behavioral Health Burden
National Survey on Drug Use and Health 2014, 2015
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Gender and Prescription Drug Use and Misuse
Past Year Male Female
Prescription psychotherapeutic drugs
40.9% 47.8%
“Pain Relievers” 33.9% 38.8%
Tranquilizers 11.3% 17.9%
Sedatives 5.6% 8.2%
Stimulants 6.5% 6.3%
• 2.1 million Past Year Initiates Opioid Misuse – 0.9 million males (0.7%)– 1.2 million females
(0.9%)
– 3300 women per day
NSDUH 2015
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Prevalence of long-term opioid use for noncancer pain among adult members of (a) Kaiser Permanente Northern California and (b) Group Health Cooperative, by gender and year: 1997–2005
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Gender Differences
• Telescoping: – Substance use in women progresses more quickly to addiction– Women tend to enter treatment at later stage of addiction
• Women can have more severe withdrawal and have higher risk of opioid overdose– Smaller body mass, and higher fat-to-water ratio– Differences in metabolism, absorption, and elimination– Less likely to receive naloxone (only 45% of women c/w 77% men)
Sumner SA et al, “Use of Naloxone by Emergency Medical Services…” Prehosp Emerg Care 2016, 20(2)TIP-51-Substance-Abuse-Treatment-Addressing-the-Specific-Needs-of-Women/SMA15-4426archives.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NN0013.html
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Gender and Development of Addiction
• Healthcare professionals tend to miss signs of addiction in women– Especially in older women and younger girls
• ADVISe Study: RCT SBIRT implementation into primary care:– 640,000 adult patients– Women less likely to be screened (OR=0.78)– Among those screened, women less likely to receive BI/RT (OR=0.60)
Simoni-Wastila L. J Womens Health Gend Based Med. 2000 Apr;9(3):289-97.casacolumbia.org/articlefiles/380-Formative_Years_Pathways_to_Substance_Abuse.pdf
who.int/mental_health/prevention/genderwomen/en/
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Public Health Response to the Opioid Crisis
Prescribing Guidelines are Gender Blind
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Unused Opioids Following Surgery
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Rate of persistent opioid use following surgery 5-10%
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Lessons from the Opioid Crisis:1. Reduce Opioid Exposure
• Opioid Prescribing Guidelines are effective in both:– 1) Reducing opioid exposure in community – thereby reduce
misuse/overdose/addiction– 2) Reducing opioid exposure in individual patient – thereby reduce
misuse/overdose/addiction
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Guidelines Decrease Prescribing
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Prescription Opioid Epidemic Peaked in 2012
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What is the risk of opioid addiction among individuals prescribed opioids for pain?
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Likelihood of addiction from chronic opioid use
Rates of misuse 12-29% (95%CI:13-38%)Rates of addiction averaged between 8-12% (95% CI: 3-17%)
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Not everyone who uses drugs becomes addicted
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Why do some people become addicted and not others?
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Why do some people become addicted and not others?
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Why do some people become addicted and not others?Prevention of Addiction
30% 50-70%
Demand:Adverse Childhood Experiences
Supply:War on Drugs
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)Kaiser ACE Study (CDC funded)
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)Drug Use and Addiction
“The compulsive use of nicotine, alcohol and drugs increases proportionally in a strong, graded, dose response manner that closely parallels the intensity of adverse life
experiences during childhood” (Felittti 2003 Praxis)
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Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)Experienced more by girls than boys
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Sexual Violence in Female Youth (<18yo)
• 6% (7 million) girls experience rape• 4% (4 million) experience rape
involving drugs or alcohol• 2% (2.6 million) experience
attempted rape
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Lessons from the Opioid Crisis:2. Prevent ACES
1) Prevent Exposure to Trauma (primary prevention) • Loving, nurturing and stable home environment during school years• Absence of violence • (Borrowed from CDC protective factors to reduce effects of FASDs)
2) Promote Resilience at risk by exposure to adversity (secondary prevention)• Trauma-informed care• Treat people with dignity and respect: Humanizing Discourse
Language of Empathy vs Shame
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Why do some people become addicted and not others?Prevention: Punitive vs. Public Health
30% 50-70%
Demand:Adverse Childhood Experiences
Supply:War on Drugs
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US Drug Policy = The War on DrugsA Costly Failure – By Any Metric
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US Drug Policy = Mass IncarcerationRacial Inequities in Policing, Prosecution and Imprisonment
Most Prisoners are Parents
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https://www.sesamestreet.org/toolkits/incarceration
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The War on Drugs – Causes ACES
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The War on Drugs and ACES:A Perverse Cycle
War on Drugs
ACES
Drug Use
Addiction
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Policies in OppositionCognitive Dissonance
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Lessons from the Opioid Crisis:3. Roll Back the War on Drugs
Decriminalization as Public Health - Portugal
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Lessons from the Opioid Crisis:3. Roll Back the War on Drugs
At recent rate of de-carceration: it will take 75 YEARS to cut the prison population in half
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Lessons from the Opioid Crisis:4. Focus on Treatment
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Treatment works but most individuals with addiction don’t receive any treatment
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Treatment Gap > 1 million
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Overall provision of women-centered services in drug treatment facilities declined 2002-2009 (43%-40%, p<0.001)
AJPH 2015
Treatment Gap Greater for Women
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“Overprescribing was not the sole cause of the problem. While increased opioid prescribing for chronic pain has been a vector of the opioid epidemic, researchers agree that such structural factors as lack of economic opportunity, poor working conditions, and eroded social capital in depressed communities, accompanied by hopelessness and despair, are root causes of the misuse of opioids and other substances.”
To Turn the Tide – Focus on Suffering
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“Opioid addiction and abuse is commonly happening to those being treated for acute pain, such as a broken bone or wisdom tooth extraction.”
Popular narratives focus on opioid over-prescribing (physician behavior):
Not on social determinants
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The Opioid Crisis Will WaneThere will be other drug epidemics
Unless We Address Root Causes(Prevent ACES)
Our response to the Opioid Crisis must not be Opioid Exclusive
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Gender and the Public Health Response to the Opioid Crisis
• Truly treat addiction as a disease - decriminalize drug use • Understand (better) gender and pain and the unique
vulnerabilities of women to addiction– “Guidelines” should not be gender blind
• Make sure that systems are in place assess and treat women and their families with the highest quality of care and with dignity and compassion