Email UpdatesCombating a Crisis by Integrating Mental Health Services and Primary Care
Describes the needed paradigm shift towards behavioral health integration with primary care and discusses key policy and financing challenges to behavioral health integration
Program Policies & Procedures
Sample policies and procedures of MAT programs.
Coding for Behavioral Health Integration Services
Provides information about coding for payment and reimbursement of behavioral health integration (BHI) services, including general BHI and collaborative care management
Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration in Rural Health Facilities: Policy Brief and Recommendations to the Secretary
Offers policy recommendations for increasing behavioral health and primary care integration in rural areas. Recommendations include access, workforce recruitment and retention, telehealth and technology, and reimbursement
An Introduction Into Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration
Presents information about the benefits of behavioral health and primary care integration for improving the health and well-being of communities, including a discussion about potential federal policy opportunities
Addressing Excessive Alcohol Use: State Fact Sheets
Summarizes statistics on alcohol use, such as number of deaths from excessive alcohol use each year, and policy solutions, such as raising taxes in each state
Fentanyl Drug Checking and Screening: Roundtable on Community Perspectives Summary Report
These proceedings summarize the discussion from the harm reduction community roundtable and supplemental individual interviews, inclusive of representatives from national and local harm reduction organizations, state and local government agencies, tribal organizations, and researchers who have experience distributing fentanyl test strips (FTS) or are knowledgeable about FTS specifically or drug checking more generally.
2022 National Drug Control Strategy
This inaugural National Strategy proposes bold, targeted, and consequential actions to bend the curve on overdose deaths in the immediate term and reduce substance use and its damaging consequences in the US over the longer term.
Toward an Addiction-ary: Language, Stigma, Treatment, and Policy
These are presentation slides which demonstrate the impact of stigma with facts and figures. They were presented by John F. Kelly, Ph.D. at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals Conference in Anaheim, CA in June 2016.
Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse
This guide will serve as a compendium of key policies for the prevention of alcohol misuse that have been identified as evidence-based by robust scientific literature.
The Economic Burden of Mental Health Inequities in the United States Report
This study attempts to answer two core questions: how many lives and how many dollars could be saved if the mental and behavioral health care system became more equitable?