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Posted 4/12/2024
Researchers used data from electronic license renewals in 2021 to examine what factors affect the likelihood of providing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder. Physicians and nurse practitioners who were younger, practiced in a public or community health center, and offered a sliding fee scale in their practice had a greater likelihood of providing MAT.
Posted 4/19/2021 (updated 4/5/2024)
Discharge planning is recognized as an essential component of psychiatric care. Patients released from inpatient facilities can reasonably expect to be given prescriptions for needed medications (or the medications themselves) and a referral to a mental health professional who can provide follow-up care. Do the same expectations apply to correctional facilities, which today house so many people with serious mental illnesses?
Posted 10/23/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
This article offers data regarding offering buprenorphine treatment at a public hospital primary care setting using a home, unobserved induction protocol.
Posted 10/19/2020 (updated 3/29/2024)
The Providers Clinical Support System (PCSS) Mentoring Program support is recommended for clinicians who are contemplating or have recently begun prescribing MOUD and would like additional support. PCSS offers three tiers of service at no cost to the recipient: (1) a discussion forum, (2) the ability to submit a clinical question through the PCSS website, and (3) one-on-one mentoring.
Posted 9/4/2020 (updated 3/29/2024)
Like all professions, the addictions treatment field is faced with the challenges of employee substance use and abuse and their impact on retention of quality staff. Because the addictions field employees a disproportionate number of individuals – by recent estimates close to half of the treatment workforce – in recovery, the field faces particular retention challenges. This toolkit provides meaningful and practical guidance to the problem of substance misuse among addictions professionals.
Posted 2/26/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
In this cross-sectional study of data from 3142 US counties, counties in the South Atlantic, Mountain, and East North Central divisions had more than twice the odds of being at high risk for opioid overdose mortality and lacking in capacity to deliver medications for opioid use disorder. Higher density of primary care clinicians, a younger population, micropolitan status, and lower rates of unemployment were associated with lower risk of opioid overdose and lower risk of lacking in capacity to deliver medications for opioid use disorder.
Posted 2/10/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Through enhanced primary care, the Transitions Clinic Network (TCN) seeks to improve the health of people with chronic conditions who return to their
communities from prison.
Posted 12/3/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
The National Council for Behavioral Health, through the National Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) grant award from SAMHSA, is the home of the newest evidence-based resources, tools and support for organizations working to integrate primary and behavioral health care.
Posted 12/3/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW) improves the health of underserved and vulnerable populations by strengthening the health workforce and connecting skilled professionals to communities in need.
Posted 2/23/2024 (updated 3/28/2024)
his study assessed the degree in which health care professionals who were practicing within primary care or were likely to come in contact with patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) were endorsing misinformation about buprenorphine and if this affected their willingness to care for patients with OUD.