WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: April 21, 2016 Featuring: Joseph Foster, JD, New Hampshire Attorney General, New Hampshire Department of Justice Joel Hyatt, MD, FAAFP, Emeritus Assistant Regional Medical Director, Kaiser Permanente, Southern California Lindsay Martin, MSPH, Executive Director and Improvement Advisor, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Mara Laderman, MSPH, Senior Research Associate, IHI The US is in the midst of a serious opioid addiction epidemic. Driven largely by an explosion of prescribed pain medications, the dramatic rise in addiction and deaths from overdoses (quadruple what they were in 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) now has the attention of just about every sector of society that can play a role in addressing the problem. This includes innovative approaches coming from law enforcement, local, state, and federal health departments, drug treatment programs, community groups, and health care delivery.   While providers who write prescriptions for painkillers such