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Implementation Science: Effective, Engaging Strategies for Virtual Implementation Facilitation

As part of the AcademyHealth's series highlighting takeaways from the 13th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, this blog post explores opportunities and challenges of remote implementation facilitation and shares best practices for effective engagement during and after the pandemic.

Getting Paid for MAT: Sustainable Reimbursement Series

This webinar series includes resources and trainings related to administering and reimbursement for medications for addiction treatment, including reimbursement for telehealth for substance use disorders.

Getting Candid: Framing the Conversation Around Youth Substance Use Prevention

This guide and toolkit was created to support and empower youth-serving providers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to engage youth in substance use prevention conversations, including what not to say, and how to help young people connect with services when needed.

Further Experience with the Practice Integration Profile: A Measure of Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration

Describes the experience of continuing the validation of the Practice Integration Profile measure using internal consistency, intra-rater consistency, and inter-rater consistency with a separate and larger sample from a broader array of practices

First-Line Medications for the Outpatient Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder: A Systematic Review of Perceived Barriers

Systematic review exploring barriers for using medications for alcohol use disorder in outpatient clinical settings, showing that providers continue to lack knowledge about the use of medications and continue to experience stigma and barriers related to accessing medications

Evidence for the Effectiveness and Acceptability of e-SBI or e-SBIRT in the Management of Alcohol and Illicit Substance Use in Pregnant and Post-partum Women

Reviews current evidence for the use of screening, brief intervention, and referral (SBIRT) to treatment delivered through mHealth technologies and explores implications of using mHealth to address alcohol use among pregnant and post-partum women

Effect of Extended-release Naltrexone on Alcohol Consumption: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Reviews seven trials on naltrexone use for alcohol use disorder, finding that it reduces drinking days and heavy drinking days per month, with longer duration of treatment associated with larger reductions

Effectiveness of Digital Interventions for Preventing Alcohol Consumption in Pregnancy: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Systematic review that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of digital interventions (i.e., computers, mobile apps, and text messaging services) during pregnancy suggesting computer/internet-based interventions are an effective platform for preventing alcohol consumption among pregnant women and women planning to become pregnant

Effects of Brief Substance Use Interventions Delivered in General Medical Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Systematic review looking at the effects of brief interventions for substance use delivered in general medical settings, finding that alcohol-targeted brief interventions may produce small reductions in drinking

Efficacy of Extended-Release Injectable Naltrexone on Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment: A Systematic Review

Reviews literature on naltrexone, concluding that it leads to reduced drinking although often not complete abstinence

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