Submit your research to our call for submissions campaign on the opioid epidemic. Our goal is to mobilize medical researchers and healthcare providers across disciplines and specialties as the medical community continues to combat this devastating public health crisis.

Important: The deadline for submission is September 30th. Please use 'Opioid Epidemic' as a keyword in your submission to qualify.

United States opioid and overdose statistics (CDC):

• Nearly 841,000 people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose.
• Over 70% of drug overdose deaths in 2019 involved an opioid.
• More than 14,000 deaths from prescription opioids occurred in 2019, which is equivalent to about 38 deaths per day

For the opportunity to be featured on a devoted opioid research page, editors will consider original articles, case reports, review articles, and technical reports across a broad area of research in a multitude of specialties related to the opioid epidemic including: 

• Emergency Medicine
• Medical Education and Simulation
• Public Health
• Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Pain Management
• Oncology
• Anesthesia
• Cardiology
• Critical Care

Example topics include:

• Early detection of opioid use disorders
• Avenues for treatment of chronic pain and opioid use disorders
• Covid-19 pandemic and opioid overdose increase
• Opioid use disorders focused prevention strategies
• Overdose-related cardiac arrests observed by emergency medical services
• Advancing better practices for pain management
• The psychology of addiction