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Posted 5/17/2024
This article discusses strategies to recruit primary care providers who will implement a medication for opioid use disorder integrated care model. The Pennsylvania Project, Project RAMP, was guided by a framework highlighting design, recruitment, pre-implementation, and implementation processes. The study covers the implementation sites that were recruited, the planning and implementation activities, and evaluation of the processes.
Posted 4/4/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
The guide from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing aims to support harm reduction organizations operating in virtual environments and summarizes some of the strategies that harm reduction organizations have developed and found to be effective at maintaining connection while doing harm reduction work virtually. Harm reduction continued during the COVID-19 pandemic and organizations effectively changed the way services were delivered, primarily through telework.
Posted 3/21/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
Researchers at Indiana University conducted one-on-one interviews with clinical providers and other stakeholders in the recovery arena to better understand the slow uptake of the drug most used to treat opioid use disorder. Biases against buprenorphine was the most consistent theme, though the reason for bias differed amongst stakeholders. Clinical providers and behavioral health care providers preferred the abstinence approach rather than use of medications.
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.
Posted 2/1/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
This study looks at how common the presence of alcohol is in opioid overdose deaths. While there are "waves" of the opioid crisis, the authors studied how alcohol affect individuals in this fourth wave as it is characterized by opioid-stimulant polysubstance use.
Posted 11/30/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
AHA recently released two case studies focusing on behavioral health in young people. “Community Partnerships: Improving Behavioral Health Access for San Diego’s Youth” focuses on Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, which in 2015 set forth a strategic plan to transform mental health by treating the whole child, integrating physical and behavioral health. “Community Partnerships: Improving Behavioral Health Access for Virginia’s Youth” examines the initiative put forth by Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters to transform pediatric mental health services through dedication and partnerships.
Posted 11/1/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
The webinar held by NASTAD on October 26, 2022, 4:00-5:30pm featured a dynamic discussion on integrating harm reduction principles and practices, including naloxone distribution, safe disposal, and harm reduction supply access, within the community health care setting. Health centers across the country that offer these services as part of comprehensive care shared their experiences and the ways that service expansion can contribute to engagement and care access.
Posted 6/7/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
The first part of this presentation examined and presented medical/physiological aspects of SUD and an overview of the impact of SUD on a small but vulnerable population. Dr. Parker then provided an overview of recent substance abuse prevention and intervention applications within American Indian and Alaska Native communities. She described the trends regarding opioid overdose among American Indian and Alaska Native communities during the global pandemic and discussed opportunities for addressing opioid overdose prevention in the future.
Posted 6/6/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
Presenter(s):
Mary Roary, PhD, MBA, Director of the Office of Behavioral Health Equity, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Posted 6/6/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
The Project Directors and Data Coordinator from Ohio’s Community of Practice Rural Community Opioid Response Program (CoP- RCORP) Consortium shared lessons from the field on collecting and managing data for the Biannual Progress Report. This presentation covered the approach and tools to collecting information for the Work Plan, Request for Information, and Excel Data Supplement. Supports for invoicing and effort reporting were also discussed.