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Posted 8/25/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) provided interactive graphic reports on the trends in overdose deaths using the latest data. The interactive infographic shows the effects combined drugs, such as fentanyl and xylazine, have on overdoses.
Posted 8/8/2023 (updated 3/26/2024)
This webinar is an invaluable opportunity for health care professionals, policymakers, researchers, and anyone else interested in mental health and substance use interventions to learn about the latest research and innovative approaches in the field.
Posted 3/7/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
A new article in RHIhub's The Rural Monitor describes the community's understanding of Native culture in Gallup, New Mexico to take an effective, holistic community-wide approach to recovery of SUD. The article highlights a community-wide consortium that works hard to tackle the issue of alcohol and substance use disorders through withdrawal management, peer counseling, assisting with housing, and other services.
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 12/13/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
The Community Engagement: An Essential Component of an Effective and Equitable Substance Use Prevention System guide was prepared for SAMHSA. The guide focuses on community engagement to bring together skills, knowledge, and experience which can help in evidence-based programs and policies.
Posted 8/23/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
In this cross-sectional, multistate study of rural communities, 79% of people using drugs reported past-30-day methamphetamine use; nonfatal overdose was greatest in people using both methamphetamine and opioids (22%) vs opioids alone (14%), or methamphetamine alone (6%). People using both substances reported the least access to treatment; only 17% of those using methamphetamine alone had naloxone.
Posted 6/10/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
More people are dying from overdose now than at any point in history. Individuals learned about three innovative communication campaigns that challenge stigma, center people who use drugs, and build support for harm reduction as a lifesaving strategy to reduce overdose deaths.
Posted 6/7/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
Stigma and bias among community members, health care providers, and even family members toward individuals with substance use disorder negatively affects the care provided to this population. Stigma prevents individuals from seeking treatment and continues to divide them from their families, their communities, and the evidence-based treatments available.
Posted 6/3/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
This presentation highlighted The Health Wagon’s Rural Communities Opioid Response program, Strengthening and Expanding Substance Use Disorder and Opioid Use Disorder Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Programs in Southwest Virginia. The program is a consortium-based implementation that aims to reduce the morbidity and mortality of substance use disorder (SUD), including opioid use disorder (OUD), in rural communities in Southwest Virginia at the highest risk for SUD.
Posted 5/11/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
The rate of drug overdose deaths in the USA has more than tripled since the turn of the century, and rates are disproportionately high among the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population. Little is known about the overall historical trends in AI/AN opioid-only and opioid/polysubstance-related mortality. This study will address this gap.