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Posted 1/24/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
This webinar will introduce the newest RCORP program cohorts to the RCOEs, Fletcher Group, University of Rochester, and University of Vermont. These three cooperative agreements are charged with supporting the identification, translation, dissemination, and implementation of evidence-based programs and best practices, in addition to providing specialized TA to RCORP recipients and other rural providers.
Posted 9/14/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
This fact sheet discusses new amendments to Tennessee’s naloxone access laws that went into effect on July 1, 2022. These amendments increase access to naloxone in several ways and remove some confusing language that previously limited the impact of state efforts to increase access to lifesaving opioid antagonist medications
Posted 1/26/2022 (updated 3/26/2024)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at data from six states mandated to report on neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a condition that occurs when newborn babies experience withdrawal from drugs. A previous study of these states – Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia – indicated that the reporting helped determine the prevalence of NAS and identify communities more severely affected. The current report is based on answers to a follow-up questionnaire given to epidemiologists and birth defects program managers from the same six states.
Posted 11/25/2020 (updated 9/14/2022)
This Peer Integration Toolkit from Office of Addiction Services And Supports State of New York (OASAS) uses a stages of change framework to present guidance information. To effectively implement change, the organization will need to evaluate their current stage of change about the integration of peer services (pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action or wellness).
Posted 11/11/2021 (updated 11/12/2021)
In this session, a former RCORP-Planning, current RCORP-Implementation, and newly awarded RCORP-Psychostimulant grantee shared how it used multisectoral collaboration, lived experience, and second-chance employment to build a program from the ground up.
Posted 4/28/2021 (updated 9/2/2021)
Many people use opioids and are at risk of overdose. Naloxone is an opioid antagonist used to counter the effects of opioid overdose. There is an increased availability of naloxone in New York City; however, many who use opioids decline no-cost naloxone even when offered. Others may have the medication but opt not to carry it and report that they would be reluctant to administer it if they were to witness an overdose.
Posted 9/1/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
To raise awareness of increasing overdose events and deaths related to cocaine and other stimulant use, and to provide guidance to health care providers on clinically managing and preventing harm from cocaine and stimulant use disorders.
Posted 12/3/2019 (updated 9/2/2021)
Billing Behavioral Health Medicaid Services Under Managed Care in New York State.
Posted 7/16/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
The information in this document was guided by the vision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health and lessons learned from a 3-year reentry enhancement project conducted across 3 different reentry organizations. The participating pilot sites were the Resonance Center for Women, Inc., the College and Community Fellowship, and the Institute for Health and Recovery . Using the information compiled through this project, this guide was created by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation.
Posted 5/12/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
Corrections-Based Responses to the Opioid Epidemic: Lessons from New York State’s Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Program focuses on the efforts of NYS to implement an overdose education and naloxone distribution program that teaches all soon-to-be released people in state correctional facilities—as well as their families and corrections staff—about the risks of opioid use, trains them in the use of naloxone, and offers it to them free of charge at release.