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Introduction to Special Topic Issue on the Opioid Crisis.

GUEST EDITORS To that end, it is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce our two Guest Editors, who bring several decades of expertise as clinicians, researchers, and teachers to the field of nursing and to this informative special topic issue on the opioid epidemic. The seven original papers, Ann M. Mitchell, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FIAAN, FAAN and Diane Snow, PhD, APRN, BC, PMHNP-BC, FAANP, FIAAN have selected for this special issue demonstrate a nursing perspective on understanding and addressing the needs of those with opioid abuse and opioid use disorder (OUD). Dr. Mitchell received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is professor of nursing and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. Dr. Mitchell has served as Project Director (PI) on two HRSA-funded projects and as Project Coordinator on one HRSA-funded project related to screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol and other drug use for students, nurses, and interprofessional groups of healthcare professionals. She is currently funded by SAMHSA to integrate SBIRTeducation into the Nurse Practitioner curriculum, addressing substance use across the lifespan. Lastly, she is working with the CDC on two projects to incorporate alcohol screening and brief intervention (Alcohol SBI) into nursing practice with the goal of preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Dr. Snow received her PhD in Nursing from Texas Woman‘s University in Denton. She practices as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in a private practice in Denton, TX. She was a PMHNP for 9 years at the UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Bipolar Research Program. She was awarded the 2017 Living Legend award by the International Society of Psychiatric Nurses (ISPN). She was the 2017 Ann Ottney Cain Lectureship speaker at the University of Maryland School of Nursing on the opioid epidemic. She is planner and presenter at the annual ISPN Psychopharmacology Institute and received the Susan McCabe Lectureship Award. She taught at the University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing for 36 years and developed and directed the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program for 20 years. She retired in January 2016. We are fortunate to have these two leaders and scholars leading our special topic issue. The papers selected provide a variety of nursing perspectives and I know you will enjoy and benefit from the contents.