Rebecca Rodin
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology
In 2016 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidelines urging caution with opioid painkillers, in response to an overdose crisis that has killed over half a million Americans since 1999. The guidelines targeted chronic pain not caused by cancer.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
opioid prescribing
2016 CDC opioid guidelines
pain management
- Grants
- 1 known grant, last ended Aug 2026
What they work on
- Compare changes in opioid use after the 2016 CDC guidelines between older adults with and without Alzheimer's disease and related dementias who have cancer or hip or pelvic fracture, using Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data and a difference-in-differences design.
- Test whether the guidelines' effect on opioid prescribing for cancer or fracture pain differed between older adults with income at or below the federal poverty line and those with higher income.
- Assess whether racial and ethnic minoritized older adults with cancer or hip or pelvic fracture saw larger drops in opioid use after the 2016 guidelines than white older adults, using linked Medicare claims and Part D pharmacy records.
More about the research
Early evidence suggests they may also have cut access to opioids that seriously ill people medically need. This could hit hardest among older adults who are already at risk of having their pain undertreated.
Why it matters
The findings could show whether a policy meant to curb opioid overdoses left older adults with dementia, poverty or minoritized status undertreated for cancer and fracture pain. That evidence could inform future prescribing guidance so it protects against misuse without denying needed pain relief to vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: 45 labs on PI Pages, $1.0B a year on research, 62 research doctorates a year.
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