A Guide to Using Text Messages to Improve Substance Use Treatment Outcomes
This guide describes benefits and best practices of using text messages as an adjunct to treatment and follow-up for substance use disorders.
This collection of tools and resources is for providers, staff, and patients who offer or use services to address substance use, and other interested stakeholders. This collection was originally established following an environmental scan on implementing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD) in rural primary care. (See PDFs of Volume 1 [PDF 0.69 MB] and Volume 2 [PDF 1.28 MB] of that scan). Items have been continuously added to this collection since then, and the collection has expanded to cover substance use more broadly, rather than just MAT for OUD.
This guide describes benefits and best practices of using text messages as an adjunct to treatment and follow-up for substance use disorders.
An informational page on the Bloomberg American Health Initiative website which details facts and resources from their Fentanyl Overdose Reduction Checking Analysis Study (FORECAST).
Highlights key findings about implementing evidence-based telehealth services, including legal and regulatory codes and professional ethical requirements
Looks at various barriers to accessing mental health and substance use disorder treatment and services in rural communities and describes how telehealth interventions may provide ways to overcome specific barriers