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Taking Local Action in a National Opioid Crisis James Wilson California State Rural Health Association June 20, 2019 About me About Plumas County Population has decreased 11% since 2000 Less industry, more poverty. Suicide rate is

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Taking Local Action in a National Opioid Crisis

James Wilson California State Rural Health Association June 20, 2019

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About me

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About Plumas County

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  • Population has decreased 11% since 2000
  • Less industry, more poverty.
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  • Suicide rate is 113% higher than California’s
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Our Region

Although each county has its own unique challenges, there are enough similarities to make it worthwhile to work together. Plus, none of us really have the capacity to take this on alone.

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Edith Springer – 1996

“Do not attempt to minimize the devastating impact substance use can have on individuals, communities, and families. Face it and stand with all the people affected by substance use ‘where they are at’ and care about the next ten minutes and the next ten years.”

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Scope of the Problem

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf81gj5QsM

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In 2015 Plumas County’s opioid crisis came into focus

  • Community level trauma
  • High prescription opioid overdose death rate
  • Limited or no access to naloxone, syringes or

MAT

  • High opioid prescribing rate
  • Prescription drug focus to start
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  • Modoc – 1,024
  • Lassen – 1,076
  • Plumas – 1,315
  • Sierra – 1,139
  • CA - 572
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Plumas’ physician experience

  • There were too many prescription drug
  • verdoses coming in to our

ERs.

  • Some of these people would return a month
  • r two later with

another overdose despite the ER doctor notifying the prescribing physician of the need to reduce the responsible medications.

  • Too many younger people were on high-

potency opioids like methadone and oxycodone for their ongoing non-cancer pain (back, fibromyalgia, headaches).

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Stakeholder feedback for planning

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Three focuses

Prevention Treatment Harm Reduction

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Prevention

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First Prevention target was providers

  • How to inspire providers to change behavior?
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 Educational interventions (CME, AD)  Peer pressure  Guidelines  Clinic-wide changes  Incentives (fee for service)  Guilt  Data  Patient demands  Fear of legal repercussions  Mentorship influence

Factors that could motivate a physician to change their behavior include…

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  • Adopted the CDC Guidance for treatment of non-cancer pain with
  • pioids and got the message out to all regional doctors and other

healthcare providers (FNP, PA):

– Opioids are an ineffective and hazardous treatment of chronic non- malignant pain (such as fibromyalgia or ongoing back pain) – Increase expertise in the use of non-opioid treatments whenever possible. – Prescribe the smallest number of pills that are reasonable. – Avoid combining opioids and benzodiazepines. – People on more than 90 MME (morphine milligram equivalents) a day or on both opioids and benzodiazepines are at particularly high risk of dying. – Initiate opioid and/or benzodiazepine tapers for these high risk patients.

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How we got the message out

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Results?

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Prescription opioid deaths by year – Plumas County

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By the numbers

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Safe drug disposal

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They’re being used!

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Public Education

  • Town Hall meetings
  • Newspaper articles
  • Press releases
  • Education to teens
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Education to youth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=51&v=vLYX68L_3X0

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Education in the community

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Treatment

Next step, increase # of Docs who are X-waived

The image on the right is a map

  • f our region, with the locations
  • f X-waived physicians in 2015

pinpointed with flags.

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Started a pilot program

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Barriers

  • No way to charge for it
  • Resistance from nursing staff
  • Lack of behavioral therapy
  • Forcefully integrated into other services
  • Would work better in a primary care

setting

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Other factors

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Today, 10 x-waved docs in the region

Modoc – 2 Lassen – 2 Plumas – 5 Sierra – 1

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Diagnosis Patient Outcomes (# of patients) Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)

  • 1. Initiated medication for OUD = 45
  • 2. Remaining on MAT for ≥6 months = 24

Persons who Inject Drugs at risk for HIV

  • 1. Offered HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) = 0
  • 2. Remaining on PrEP for ≥6 months = 0

HIV

  • 1. On antiretroviral treatment = 16
  • 2. With viral load undetectable = 15

HCV 1. Prescribed HCV treatment = 14

  • 2. Achieved sustained virologic response = 9

Note: The Health Department is currently searching for a provider in the county that will prescribe PrEP. Until that time, they are referring patients to PlushCare (an online prescription provider).

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Buprenorphine prescriptions in the county are used to gauge the expansion of medication-assisted treatment (MAT). The annual buprenorphine prescribing rate in 2017 was 30.9 per 1,000 residents. This represents a 181% increase in buprenorphine prescribing from 2015

12-month rates are based on moving averages; OD = Overdose; Qtrly = Annualized Quarter Report produced by the California Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboard - https://cdph.ca.gov/opioiddasboard/

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County-wide program

The coalition received funding from HRSA to develop a county-wide program with all the county’s hospitals, the behavioral health department, and the jail. This would include wrap-around case management modeled after the county’s Ryan White program.

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In the Emergency Department

New program induces patients with buprenorphine whilein the E.D. Patients may show up for other reasons, but if ready, can start treatment right away.

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Harm Reduction

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What syringe access looks like in Plumas County

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Always part of the plan

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Started efforts surrounding naloxone

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Pharmacy access

Pharmacists are trusted by people who may be at risk of an opioid overdose, are knowledgeable, and accessible to members of the community.

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Emergency responders

Worked with local EMS to develop policies and procedures for emergency

  • responders. Supplied local police and fire personnel with naloxone, and some

even began distributing it.

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We really wanted to get naloxone in the hands of those that need it most, so we started a community distribution program.

Policies and Procedures Standing Orders Distribution Locations

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Each kit includes…

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Since September, 2016…

REPORTED INSTANCES OF NALOXONE FROM THE PROGRAM BEING USED TO REVERSE AN OVERDOSE AND SAVE A LIFE!

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Jail Program

Image from “Staying Alive on the Outside.”

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What else could we do?

  • Got to know the people in our

community who use drugs

  • Got to love them
  • Wanted to do whatever we could

to improve their lives

  • The evidence was clear. We

needed to get them access to clean syringes.

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The need was obvious

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  • Learning curve about harm reduction
  • Logistical issues
  • How program will operate
  • How program will look
  • Getting past fear of community backlash

Three factors we had to work on to start a syringe services program

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Learning curve about harm reduction

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Logistical Issues

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Fear of community backlash

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What the program looks like

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Held a conference around rural harm reduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4qpAFsfo_o&t=16s

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By embracing harm reduction in the same way we embrace other public health strategies, we were able to put a dent on this crisis.

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Questions?