Clinical contexts of SuicIde following OPIOID transitionS (CSI:OPIOIDS) Interview

In this pathbreaking new study, UAB investigators seek family members of people who have died by suicide after a change in prescribed pain medications and to solicit a brief survey their experiences. In this video, lead investigators Stefan Kertesz, M.D and Allyson Varley, Ph.D., discuss how they decided to pursue this work with Ms. Anne Fuqua, who serves as outreach coordinator for families, who also has pain herself. Learn about the ideas that brought them together, and the team of national research leaders in pain, suicide and opioids who have agreed to help move this project forward. The study, titled Clinical contexts of SuicIde following OPIOID transitionS (CSI:OPIOIDS). The work is approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. All information is confidential. To participate online, go to https://go.uab.edu/csiopioids. To participate by phone, call 866-283-7223. To contact the research team write to [email protected].