Owning the opioid crisis

The Opioid Crisis From Research to Practice.

I n 2015, researchers from Yale University published a randomized, controlled trial on the treatment of opioid addiction.1 The study asked whether patients identified in the emergency department would benefit from prompt access to the well-proven medication buprenorphine, including onsite prior to discharge. The researchers were questioning not what, how, why, or who—but where. The results of t...

The Opioid Crisis and Its Consequences.

Seeking Solutions to the Opioid Crisis.

At an event focusing on population-health approaches to the opioid epidemic, discussants agreed that better coordination of care, community involvement in finding solutions, and more consistent use of improved pain-control options are required.

Owning the Routing Table –

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is the most popular interior gateway routing protocol on the Internet. Most of the known OSPF attacks are based on falsifying the link state advertisement (LSA) of an attacker-controlled router. These attacks may create serious damage if the attacker-controlled router is strategically located. However, these attacks can only falsify a small portion of the routing...

Vermont responds to its opioid crisis.

Vermont is one of the more forward-thinking states in the nation with a history of taking groundbreaking approaches to complex social issues. In his Jan 8, 2014 State of the State Address, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin announced that Vermont was in the midst of an opioid addiction epidemic. Though Vermont had called attention to its opioid crisis, it soon became clear that many other states sh...