Email UpdatesFostering Resilience and Recovery: A Change Package
This Change Package provides information, action steps and tools to guide implementation of a trauma-informed primary care approach.
Advisory: Cannabidiol (CBD) – Potential Harms, Side Effects, and Unknowns
This advisory introduces readers to cannabidiol (CBD), how it is derived, and how it differs from delta-9 THC and other cannabinoids. It also focuses on the risks and harms of CBD and clarifies common misconceptions about CBD.
Environmental Scan Final Report - Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care
This report is a culmination of an e-scan conducted annually from August 2019 to August 2023 for AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use Initiative, to address Unhealthy Alcohol Use (UAU). The initiative funded six sites (grantees) that supported several hundred primary care practices to increase implementation of UAU evidence-based interventions such as screening and brief intervention (SBI) and medication-assisted therapy (MAT).
Women and Alcohol: Screening and Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in Medical Settings
Presents information on alcohol use in women and using SBIRT and brief motivational interviewing; includes step-by-step examples on using this approach
The Need for Electronic Health Records to Support Delivery of Behavioral Health Preventive Services
Describes the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) initiative to improve primary care management of unhealthy alcohol use (UAU), and highlights needed changes in electronic health record systems to improve screening and counseling for UAU as well as meet the National Academies' digital health recommendation for information technology that best serves patients and care teams
The Building Blocks of Behavioral Health Integration
This framework of care delivery expectations for integrating behavioral health (including unhealthy alcohol use and substance use) in primary care aligns expectations across payers, practices, and patients. The framework is intentionally flexible to account for variation in approach to integrating behavioral health.
ONDCP Announces Reports on Improving Telehealth Services for Substance Use Disorder
Discusses the current state of telehealth in the United States based on Federal and State policies, the benefits and challenges related to implementation of telehealth, and policy opportunities to improve these services in the future
Technology and Strategies for Overcoming Challenges in Virtual Practice Facilitation
Presents strategies for using virtual methods for practice facilitation and addressing common challenges, including hybrid participation, collaboration platforms, and assisting with technology
Social Workers in Integrated Care Beyond Primary Care: A Scoping Review
Review that explores the different roles of social workers as members of integrated care teams; suggests that patient mental health outcomes can be positively impacted by social workers serving as members of these care teams
U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Treasury issue 2022 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Report to Congress
Provides information on the implementation of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA), highlighting the DOL, HHS, and Treasury's emphasis on greater MHPAEA enforcement