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Posted 3/29/2024
A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized and conducted a two-day virtual public workshop that brought together data experts, program implementers and evaluators, and other key interested parties to explore data collection efforts, evidence gaps, and research needs on harm reduction for people who use drugs (PWUD).
Posted 3/10/2024 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) updated Overdose Prevention and Response Toolkit provides guidance to a wide range of individuals on preventing and responding to an overdose. It emphasizes harm reduction and access to treatment as essential aspects of overdose prevention.
Posted 2/29/2024 (updated 3/28/2024)
The 2024 RCORP-Behavioral Health Care Support Onboarding Packet includes resources, tools, and strategies to support grant-funded activities, along with information on accessing TA.
Posted 12/1/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
This publication highlights the Coordinated Opioid Recovery (CORE) Program in three Florida counties. The program integrates a new facet of Emergency Medical Services known as community paramedics. Since its launch in 2022 in Palm Beach County, Florida, CORE has expanded to include 12 additional Florida counties and takes a coordinated approach to recovery for individuals with SUD.
Posted 9/8/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
September 2023 is National Recovery Month and HRSA’s Office of Women’s Health has a toolkit to support organizations and health care providers that care for women living with opioid use disorder (OUD). The toolkit provides strategies to engage women with OUD, care coordination for support, and other resources.
Posted 8/15/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
During this webinar, Aaron Ferguson and Dr. Janan Wyatt reviewed the evidence, including the cost benefit, of MOUD, and recent research findings on how regulatory changes affect patient experience.
Posted 7/26/2023 (updated 3/28/2024)
This session discussed the barriers typically encountered and workarounds such as money, staff, and location. We encouraged participants to bring successes, near successes, and non-successes in expanding access over the last 3 years.
Posted 4/28/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
The study tested a care coordination model in six rural primary care sites during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, July 2020 to January 2021. Each clinic tracked patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) as they received medication treatment delivered by an external telemedicine provider.
Posted 2/28/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
This study's objective was to develop and validate a survey tool to assess emergency department physician attitudes, clinical practice, and willingness to perform opiate harm reduction interventions. After surveying physicians, most showed they were willing to provide necessary interventions, while few do perform them. Although there was an increased willingness to perform the interventions, a disparity remains.
Posted 2/7/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
The opioid epidemic is a result of a complex system of varied and interrelated factors. This webinar introduced a systems thinking approach and offers tools to address complex public health challenges. Additionally, the webinar described opportunities for grantees to further develop their capacity to apply systems thinking to a local opioid response.