In June of 2018, Julie Dees, Director of Behavioral Health at Penn Presbyterian Hospital, faced a fatal paradox in the treatment of Opioid Abuse Disorder (OUD): 2,100 patients struggling with addiction passed through Penn’s three downtown emergency departments each year. Evidence-based medication like buprenorphine, sometimes called bupe, to treat OUD existed. And the hospital had … Continue reading How Design Thinking Took on The Opioid Epidemic