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Posted 11/27/2019 (updated 9/2/2021)
The purpose of this Technical Brief is to describe promising and innovative MAT models of care in primary care settings, describe barriers to MAT implementation, summarize the evidence available on MAT models of care in primary care settings, identify gaps in the evidence base, and guide future research.
Posted 2/26/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
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 9/2/2021)
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 10/19/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
JBS can facilitate additional technical assistance and support related prescribing medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD). This support is recommended for clinicians who are contemplating or have recently begun prescribing MOUD and would like additional support.
Posted 10/23/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
This article offers data regarding offering buprenorphine treatment at a public hospital primary care setting using a home, unobserved induction protocol.
Posted 12/23/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
This toolkit is designed primarily for substance use and child welfare practitioners, as well as other service providers and health system planners who offer services to, or design services with, pregnant women and new mothers who use substances. Much is changing in the substance use and child welfare fields to bring forth approaches that are culturally safe, trauma informed, harm reduction-oriented and participant-driven. This toolkit highlights these advances and invites people working in both systems to think about how we can continue to improve our work, in partnership with the women who use these services.
Posted 4/19/2021 (updated 9/2/2021)
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 8/4/2021 (updated 9/2/2021)
Posted 11/10/2021 (updated 9/14/2022)
The WICHE Behavioral Health Program, in partnership with staff at the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), developed the Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices to provide the necessary tools and information needed to primary care practices and clinics to identify and address the critical needs of suicidal patients. This revised edition is fully aligned with Zero Suicide, the nationally recognized, evidence-based suicide prevention framework.
Posted 11/19/2019 (updated 3/25/2024)
The intersection of opioid abuse, particularly injection drug use (IDU), and HIV is well documented; in fact, IDU is the second most frequent route of HIV transmission. Injection drug use, either directly or via sexual contact with an IDU partner, accounts for one-third of the estimated AIDS cases since the beginning of the epidemic, and 18 percent of new infections in the United States.