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Posted 2/10/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The consequences for failing to treat OUD within correctional settings are significant. In addition to risk of overdose, most individuals who receive MAT in the community lose access to treatment upon confinement; studies show these individuals experience extreme stress. Individuals with opioid dependence entering correctional facilities are also at high risk for opioid withdrawal syndrome.
Posted 12/31/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
To provide a procedure that both Nursing and Correctional Staff can adhere to for the orderly and secure issuance of suboxone.
Posted 12/3/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
The report reviews the current evidence-base for the Collaborative Care Model, essential implementation elements with detailed examples, lessons learned by those who have implemented the model, and recommendations for how to advance its use to better meet the whole health needs people with mental health conditions.
Posted 12/3/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Billing Behavioral Health Medicaid Services Under Managed Care in New York State.
Posted 4/3/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This RSV Breakout Session was held in the Supreme Court Room on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, at 4:15 PM
Posted 6/26/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This report presents information about Medicaid coverage of medication-assisted treatment for opioid and alcohol dependence. It covers treatment effectiveness and cost effectiveness. The report also offers examples of innovative approaches in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maryland.
Posted 6/26/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This report provides recommendations for actions that state and local leaders can take immediately to increase evidence-based practices, decrease arbitrary determinations, and prevent overdose deaths. The report also provides concrete steps that will, in the longterm, help dismantle a siloed system of unequal access and disparities and move towards an integrated system that promotes restorative justice, where people and families are treated with dignity, and where addiction is treated as a health and wellness matter rather than one of moral failing or criminality.
Posted 6/16/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The most effective therapy for people with opioid use disorder involves the use of Food and Drug Administration-approved medications—methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone. Despite evidence that this approach, known as medications for opioid use disorder, reduces relapse and saves lives, the vast majority of jails and prisons do not offer this treatment.
Posted 6/16/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
At least 95 percent of individuals in state prisons will eventually return to communities. In fact, in a typical year more than half a million people do so, with many more coming from jails. A disproportionate share of these individuals have one or more chronic illnesses, including more than half who met the criteria for a non-alcohol and nicotine-related substance use disorder from 2007 to 2009, according to the latest available data.
Posted 6/12/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) Regional Health Administrators presented a webinar series highlighting resources, policies, and assistance for developing and expanding SSPs in diverse settings and in different communities across the country, the three webinars were held in 2019.