Meghan Breckling

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Assistant Professor

UAMS

Faculty Researcher

2 h-index 9 pubs 42 cited

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Meghan Breckling's research focuses on improving access to and implementation of interventions related to opioid use disorder and overdose prevention, particularly in rural Arkansas. Her work investigates strategies such as academic detailing to increase naloxone prescribing in primary care settings. Breckling has also explored the implementation of pharmacy-embedded community health worker models and the use of telemedicine among older adults. Her recent publications address the reduction of opioid use in surgical settings and protocols for pharmacist-led interventions to increase access to medications for opioid use disorder for incarcerated individuals.

Her research network includes collaborators from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Breckling has published nine scholarly works and has an h-index of 2 with 36 citations.

Metrics

h-index: 2
Publications: 9
Citations: 42

Selected Publications

189 Implementing an opioid overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) Training-of-Trainers Program in rural pharmacies: Qualitative insights (2026)

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science DOI OpenAlex
Academic Detailing to Advance Naloxone Prescribing in Rural Primary Care: A 2-Year Pilot Study (2025)

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health DOI OpenAlex
Evaluating the implementation and sustainment potential of a pharmacy-embedded community health worker model (2025)

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association DOI OpenAlex
Telemedicine Use Among Older Adults During COVID-19: A Narrative Literature Review of Utilization Patterns (2025)

Telemedicine Reports DOI OpenAlex
Study Protocol for Implementation of Pharmacist-Led Interventions to Increase Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder for Incarcerated Individuals (PLI-MOUD Study) (2025)

Substance Use &amp Addiction Journal DOI OpenAlex
ACADEMIC DETAILING INTERVENTION: INCREASING TRENDS OF NALOXONE PRESCRIBING IN RURAL ARKANSAS (2024)

Innovation in Aging DOI OpenAlex
IMPROVED NALOXONE PRESCRIBING IN RURAL PRIMARY CARE FOLLOWING ACADEMIC DETAILING FOR OPIOID OVERDOSE PREVENTION (2023)

Innovation in Aging DOI OpenAlex
Opioid reduction in ambulatory thyroid and parathyroid surgery after implementing enhanced recovery after surgery protocol (2021)

Head & Neck 23 citations DOI OpenAlex
Association of the “CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain” With Emergency Department Opioid Prescribing (2019)

Journal of Emergency Medicine 18 citations DOI OpenAlex