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Posted 11/19/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
This document is to assist community leaders, local and regional organizers, non-profit groups, law enforcement, public health, and members of the public in understanding and navigating effective strategies to prevent opioid overdose in their communities.
Posted 11/19/2019 (updated 3/25/2024)
The intersection of opioid abuse, particularly injection drug use (IDU), and HIV is well documented; in fact, IDU is the second most frequent route of HIV transmission. Injection drug use, either directly or via sexual contact with an IDU partner, accounts for one-third of the estimated AIDS cases since the beginning of the epidemic, and 18 percent of new infections in the United States.
Posted 11/21/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
This is a briefing for law enforcement personnel around the world on how to incorporate, support, and create space for approaches that aim to increase public safety and health, reduce harm to people who use drugs, and provide law enforcement alternatives to common punitive models.
Posted 11/21/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
This report was developed as part of an initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office on Women’s Health (OWH) to examine prevention, treatment, and recovery issues for women who misuse opioids, have opioid use disorders (OUDs), and/or overdose on opioids.
Posted 11/21/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Opioid overdose is reversible through the timely administration of naloxone, which has been used by emergency medical services for decades.
Posted 11/27/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
The purpose of this Technical Brief is to describe promising and innovative MAT models of care in primary care settings, describe barriers to MAT implementation, summarize the evidence available on MAT models of care in primary care settings, identify gaps in the evidence base, and guide future research.
Posted 12/3/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
As greater numbers of primary care practices and health systems begin to design and implement integrated behavioral health services, there is a growing need for quality measures that are rigorous and appropriate to the specific characteristics of different approaches to integration.
Posted 1/16/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
There are many different definitions and concepts associated with services integration.
Posted 1/16/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Co-location refers to services that are located in the same physical space (e.g. office, building, campus), though not necessarily fully integrated with one another.
Posted 1/22/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
With opioid deaths on the rise and fentanyl deaths rapidly increasing, a crisis of this magnitude requires innovative responses at multiple intervention points, including post-overdose, as part of a comprehensive strategy to aid in the treatment of and recovery from opioid use disorders. This article explores law enforcement overdose reversal and post-resuscitation and treatment responses in the newly emerging field of pre-arrest diversion.