Breaking Through the Wall of Stigma: NIH HEAL Research Aims to Address Stigma Among Healthcare Providers

The National Institute of Health Heal Initiative "Breaking Through the Wall of Stigma" was developed for healthcare providers to help address stigma.  The videos below take less than two minutes to describe the work of the National Institutes of Health Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (HEAL), which funds research to help reduce stigma among health care providers toward people with substance use disorders.





Last Updated:
March 13, 2024


The Role of Shame in Opioid Use Disorders

This activity helps participants identify the relationship between shame and opioid use disorder (OUD) and recognize its treatment implications for subsets of people with OUD, such as those who inject heroin and pregnant women and mothers with opioid use disorder.





Last Updated:
March 13, 2024


Opioid Utilization Dashboard

This dashboard was developed by IPRO QIN-QIO for IPRO for healthcare provider to help visualize prescribing rates within and across communities over time and can help focus efforts in geolocations in need of opioid related interventions.

IPRO QIN-QIO's publicly viewable Opioid Utilization Dashboard provides state and county level mapping of opioid utilization for the IPRO QIN-QIO region using Part D for six-month time period intervals by:





Last Updated:
March 01, 2024


Buprenorphine for Pain Relief Podcast

This podcast was developed by IPRO IPRO QIN-QIO's for healthcare professionals to help educate professionals on the management of complex, chronic pain patients.





Last Updated:
March 01, 2024


IPRO ECHO: When the Pain Won’t Stop: Whole Person Care Addressing Chronic Pain 8-session education series

This educational resource series was developed by IPRO QIN-QIO for healthcare providers and explores chronic pain from the biopsychosocial perspective of three domains: biological (e.g., tissue damage, inflammation); psychosocial (e.g., thoughts and emotions affect pain, memories of pain; and social/sociological (e.g., socioeconomic, gender, ethnicity, isolation).





Last Updated:
March 02, 2024


Nursing Home Naloxone Policy and Procedure Toolkit

This IPRO QIN-QIO Nursing Home Naloxone Policy and Procedure Toolkit was developed by a workgroup of nursing home physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, nursing home provider organizations, harm reduction experts, and quality improvement specialists for nursing home providers and is intended to provide easy to adapt policies and procedures for nursing homes that need to implement or improve their emergency response to opioid overdose, which includes naloxone administration.




Last Updated:
May 14, 2024


QIN-QIO Community of Practice Call | Managing Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department

medics and patient on hospital gurney at emergency

Comagine Health designed and delivered two ECHO™ learning series in 2022 and 2023.

IT MATTTRs Team Training

The Implementing Technology Medication Assisted Treatment Team Training (IT MATTTRs) curriculum was developed by the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine. Taught by Telligen, the 5-week learning series teaches participants how to:





Last Updated:
January 11, 2024