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Posted 6/8/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
This “Regional Emergency Disaster Response Preparedness Plan for Substance Use Disorder” workshop was designed to provide attendees with information on the importance of developing a plan to support populations with SUD/OUD during a disaster. Attendees heard how community members in rural and small urban communities are working together to ensure services and supports are available to populations with SUD during a disaster.
Posted 7/25/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
The interactive graphics allow readers to explore how the crisis of overdose deaths involving opioid use has not only grown in magnitude since 2000, but has also changed in character.
Posted 8/23/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
This observational study of 719 612 pharmacy claims data shows that OOP costs of naloxone grew substantially beginning in 2016. However, OOP costs did not increase for all patients and all brands of naloxone but primarily for uninsured patients and for the Evzio brand. The findings suggest that the OOP cost of naloxone has been an increasingly substantial barrier to naloxone access for uninsured patients, a population that constitutes nearly one-fifth of adults with opioid use disorder.
Posted 9/7/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
During this webinar, Claudia Jasso, Chief Development Officer for RCORP Implementation grantee, Amistades, Inc. and Janet Ojeda, JBS International Technical Expert Lead will present an overview of the unique cultural context, core beliefs, and value systems that should be at the heart of understanding and engaging with Latino populations. Presenters will discuss how racial inequity, assimilation, risk factors, and historical and immigration trauma have created a landscape where there is a critical need for person centered, culturally respectful and relevant mental health and SUD/OUD supports and service delivery for Latino people. All RCORP grantees, consortium members, and key community partners are welcome to attend.
Posted 11/23/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
This webinar provided RCORP grantees with the tools to complete a disparities impact statement, to support efforts to address populations in rural communities that have historically suffered from poorer health outcomes and health inequities as a part of the prevention, treatment, and recovery of SUD/OUD.
Posted 1/24/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
Clinicians no longer need DATA 2000 Waiver training to prescribe buprenorphine; however, the payment program to defray earlier training costs is still active. Launched in June 2021, the initiative pays for providers who previously received a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid use disorder. Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) still have the opportunity to apply for a $3,000 payment on behalf of each provider who previously trained to obtain the waiver necessary to prescribe buprenorphine after January 1, 2019.
Posted 3/7/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
n December 2022, Congress eliminated the DATA-Waiver program registration allowing providers to prescribe buprenorphine to treat patients for OUD. The University of Vermont Center on Rural Addiction, a HRSA Rural Center of Excellence on Substance Use Disorders, offers an incentive to help defray previous training costs of $750 to each qualifying provider who obtained a DATA-Waiver. To qualify, providers must be practicing in a HRSA-designated rural county in Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, or Northern New York.
Posted 5/26/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
More than 450 clinicians and counselors in rural New England were surveyed about stigma as a barrier to treating patients for opioid used disorder (OUD) as well as practitioners’ beliefs about medications for OUD. Over half (55 percent) ranked stigma as the highest barrier among other factors such as time and staffing, medication diversion, and organizational/clinic barriers.
Posted 6/27/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
This webinar will describe ways to explore social determinants of health (SDOH) and exemplify challenges/ opportunities in Rural America.
Posted 7/31/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
In this webinar, the presenters discussed these numerous factors affecting social determinants of health (SDOH) and health outcomes, particularly in these communities, and strategies to address them.