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Posted 8/19/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
Addiction Policy Forum, in partnership with Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) and the National Judicial Task Force to Examine State Courts’ Response to Mental Illness, have released a new online course to help educate judges and court staff on the FDA-approved medications to treat opioid use disorder and their effectiveness for people involved with the criminal justice system.
The course is self-paced and takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. The course aims to prepare participants with the knowledge and information about what substance use disorder treatment involves, the differences between the types of medications used to treat opioid use disorder, and how those medications work.
Posted 5/11/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Behavioral health integration, or BHI, requires that the health and mental health systems are organized through integrated care models that address the full spectrum of health needs.
Posted 10/25/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
Hepatitis C: State of Medicaid Access is a collaboration between the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard
Law School (CHLPI) and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR). The project evaluates hepatitis C (HCV)
treatment restriction policies across state Medicaid programs, including all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto
Rico (referred to in this report as “states”). The goal of this project is to encourage states and empower advocates to work
toward improved access to curative HCV treatment across all Medicaid programs, in order to ensure that every Medicaid
enrollee who can benefit from this treatment is able to access it.
Posted 8/17/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services recently published a policy brief on behavioral health and primary care integration in rural health facilities.