ICJIA releases Overdose Fatality Review Teams Literature Review

States and localities across the United States have implemented overdose fatality review teams to address the impact of the opioid crisis on their communities. Overdose fatality review teams are designed to increase cross-system collaboration among various public safety, public health, and social service agencies; identify missed opportunities and system gaps; and develop recommendations for intervention efforts in hopes of preventing future overdose deaths. However, limitations in peer-reviewed research on the effectiveness of overdose fatality review teams limit the understanding of their usefulness. This article provides a review of literature on overdose fatality review teams, including goals, recommendations, and information sharing protocols, as well as considerations from other fatality review teams.

Here’s the link.

New Study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on Vaping and Tobacco Quitlines

Vaping and E-Cigarettes Within the Evolving Tobacco Quitline Landscape

This article summarizes the vaping research literature as it pertains to tobacco quitlines and describes vaping assessment, treatment, and evaluation quitline practices. It also presents 2014−2018 registration data (vaping in the past 30 days, number of use days, use for quitting smoking, and intentions to quit vaping) from 24 public quitlines (23 states and District of Columbia) and 110,295 enrollees to employer-sponsored quitlines. Trends in vaping rates over time, by state, and by age group are described.

This paper outlines research and evaluation priorities to inform the future quitline treatment landscape with respect to vaping. The quitline community is positioned to increase the likelihood that vaping has a positive impact for adults who smoke through harm reduction or supporting cessation and has opportunities to expand impacts on youth and young adult vaping prevention and cessation.

Am J Prev Med 2021;60(3S2):S142−S153. © 2020 American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license

Vaping and E-Cigarettes Within the Evolving Tobacco Quitline Landscape

Just posted to this Website: SPF-PFS project Final Reports

In 2012, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) began a project designed to address underage drinking (ages 12-17) and prescription drug misuse (ages 12-25) in high-risk communities using the Strategic Prevention Framework.

In Illinois, underage drinking was identified as a significant issue as early as 2004 through an assessment process conducted by the State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW). It has continued to be a significant issue for the state through subsequent assessments in 2008 and 2012. Illinois was awarded the SPF-PFS grant in October of 2014 through a grant application submitted by the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS).

The SPF-PFS grant provided an opportunity to identify and fund sub-recipient communities throughout Illinois to utilize the SPF model (shown below) to target the most pressing contributing factors to underage drinking using a mix of evidence-based programs, policies and practices based on their local cultural context.

The SPF-PFS project officially concluded activities on September 29, 2019 after five years of funding. Five sites were granted continuation funding through June 30, 2020. These reports are the final reports from this project.

5 year project report:

SPF-PFS Final Evaluation Report, October 2019

Report from the five continuation SPF-PFS sites:

SPF-PFS Evaluation Report July 2020 Addendum

Just released! IDPH Report on Opioid Use during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Illinois is experiencing both an opioid overdose epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic. The numbers of fatal opioid overdoses have increased since 2019 with treatment and harm reduction services complicated by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of this publication is to provide a brief update on the state of the opioid epidemic in Illinois during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 fatality data are provisional, and numbers may change as cases are reviewed and only available through the third quarter of 2020.

A PDF of this report :

Illinois Opioid Overdose Epidemic during the Covid-19 Pandemic

A link to the IDPH website for this report and more information is here

CPRD research article published: “Opioid use at the transition to emerging adulthood” in Addictive Behaviors

SEOW Members Crystal Reinhart, Doug Smith and others in the School of Social Work at UIUC recently published an article on youth opioid use based on data from the Illinois Youth Survey. Here is the citation and the abstract:

Barton, A., Reinhart, C.A., Campbell, C., Smith, D.C., & Albarracin, D. (2020). Opioid use at the transition to emerging adulthood: A latent class analysis of non-medical use of prescription opioids and heroin use. Addictive Behaviors, 114. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2020.106757

Background: Although rates of nonmedical opioid use are highest in late adolescence and emerging adulthood, efforts to understand the extent of the heterogeneity in opioid misuse during this time have been limited. The current study aimed to derive and define typologies of opioid use in high school students at the onset of emerging adulthood.
Methods: Survey responses from a statewide sample of high school students aged 18 and 19 (N = 26,223) were analyzed. Group-based comparisons between participants reporting opioid use and those not reporting opioid use
were conducted. Among those reporting opioid use (n = 1,636), we conducted a latent class analysis (LCA) to identify heterogeneous subgroups of opioid users on the basis of non-medical use of prescription opioids (NMUPO) and heroin use. The resulting classes were then compared across various risk and protective factors using multinominal logistic regression.
Results: Consistent differences were observed between participants using opioids and participants not using opioids, with moderate to large effect sizes. Results from LCA revealed three subclasses: NMUPO-Any Use, NMUPO To Get High, and Heroin Use. Subclass differences were observed for non-opioid substance use, mental health, and demographics.
Conclusions: Findings from this study underscore the variability of youth who engage in opioid use in late adolescence. Results also indicate that opioid use during adolescence is likely indicative of a broader set of substance use and mental health issues.

CPRD releases 2020 Illinois Youth Survey frequency reports for students in Illinois urban, suburban and rural areas

CPRD has recently released “Strata Reports” that report the frequencies for all variables covered in the Illinois Youth Survey for Illinois youth in 8th, 10th and 12th grades living in urban, suburban and rural areas.  CPRD was unable to produce the strata report for the City of Chicago that is typically released due to an inadequate sample size. CPRD was also unable to produce an overall statewide report also due to sample size limitations resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Review these strata reports here: https://iys.cprd.illinois.edu/results/state

Reported data tables in each strata report are divided into six areas:

  • STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS includes demographic data and other information about the surveyed population.
  • DRUG PREVALENCE AND BEHAVIORS Includes substance use behaviors including type, frequency, consequences, and recovery.
  • DRUG USE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS Includes factors in students, their families, and their communities that may increase or reduce the risk of youth substance use disorder, such as access to substances and parental communication about expectations to not use drugs.
  • INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT, VIOLENCE AND DELINQUENCY includes experiences with violence and high-risk behaviors including bullying, fighting, and gambling.
  • ACADEMIC AND SCHOOL EXPERIENCES includes youth opinions of their academic experiences, their school environment, and engagement in youth activities.
  • MENTAL, SOCIAL, AND PHYSICAL HEALTH includes a variety of mental and physical health issues including thoughts about depression/suicide, nutrition, and physical activity (includes estimates of obesity).

For questions contact scott[at]cprd[dot]illinois[dot]edu

New CPRD Project: Substance Use Disorder Demonstration Evaluation

The Medicaid 1115 Substance Use Disorder Demonstration waiver will introduce a limited piloting of certain services that are currently not directly available to Illinois Medicaid beneficiaries. These additional services are expected to inform the state’s efforts to transform the behavioral health system in Illinois as some beneficiaries will have access to less costly community-based services, which are expected to help beneficiaries improve their health and avoid costlier services provided in an institution.  The demonstration period is July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2023 and includes 10 pilots addressing inpatient treatment, clinically managed withdrawal, case management, peer recovery support, crisis intervention, home visiting, community integration, supported employment, intensive in-home, and respite services. The project has six goals:

  1. Increased rates of identification, initiation, and engagement in treatment;
  2. Increased adherence to and retention in treatment;
  3. Reductions in overdose deaths, particularly those due to opioids;
  4. Reduced utilization of emergency departments and inpatient hospital settings for treatment where the utilization is preventable or medically inappropriate through improved access to other continuum of care services;
  5. Fewer readmissions to the same or higher level of care where the readmission is preventable or medically inappropriate; and
  6. Improved access to care for physical health and behavioral health conditions among beneficiaries.

The Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD) will be conducting an overall evaluation of these pilot services using Interrupted Time Series to compare trend data pre- and post-wavier and individual pilot evaluations using Propensity Score Matching analyses to compare groups. The evaluation will be conducted in partnership with the Office of Medicaid Innovation at the University of Illinois and funded by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services.

 

Next SEOW meeting: Thursday, April 22nd, 2:30-3:30 pm

Our next quarterly meeting of the Statewide Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup will be Thursday, April 22nd from 2:30 to 3:30pm.

SEOW Meeting Notes 01.21.2021

Meeting minutes from the previous Quarterly SEOW meeting held on January 21, 2021.

We’ll be getting updates regarding substance use data, newly released studies, and new data resources from around the state. We’ll also continue our  discussions about moving forward as we look toward the next state fiscal year beginning in July, 2021!

Current members have been sent a meeting invite via WebEx from Vanessa Villa at the IL Department of Human Services.

If you’re interested in membership and/or participating in our meeting, please contact SEOW Chair Scott Hays at sphays[at]illinois[dot]edu

Hope to see everyone soon!

Scott

2019 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System data tables posted.

This is to announce that the 2019 Illinois Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) detailed data tables were just posted to the IDPH website. This is the fourth year of data collection using the Phase 8 version of the PRAMS survey.

The 2019 results are available by clicking the green “Select a year” button in the middle of the page available at http://dph.illinois.gov/data-statistics/prams.  On the 2019 results landing page, a comprehensive set of charts is provided in the “2019 Illinois PRAMS Detailed Data Tables” link. There also are chart-specific hyperlinks allowing you to see the available charts and to view them individually.

Opioid supplement data collected from April 2019 through December 2019 are included in the results beginning on Table 81. These results replace the opioid results released earlier this year for the period April 2019 through August 2019.

As always, I am interested in your feedback on the data tables. I also am interested in knowing if you use the PRAMS data for education purposes, or for program or policy development that could be highlighted in a Data to Action report to the CDC. Please feel free to e-mail or call with your comments and feedback.

Thank you for your support of the PRAMS program!

Julie

Julie B. Doetsch, M.A.

Perinatal Health Data Manager

Illinois Department of Public Health

525 W. Jefferson St., 2nd Floor

Springfield, IL 62701

217-785-1064 ext. 5

Schedule: M-Th 7:30a–4:30p, Alternating Fridays 7:30a-3:00p / Off