Your project is a very important undertaking given today’s opiod epidemic. As nurses, we see the many predictors for developing long-term use of opiod. This includes chronic pain and psychiatric disorders and mood disorders. The recent literature review has shown that concurrent use of sedative/hypnotics and opioids has been shown to be associated with a substantial increased risk of death from drug overdose ( Lagisetty, Klasa, Bush, Heisler, Chopra, & Bohnert, 2017). The question is, what do we do about it? There have been many studies that have analyzed programs and interventions to reduce Opiod Use Disorder (OUD). Studies by Lagisetty et al., (2017) have shown that coordinated care models are by far the most common delivery structures
