Policymakers and Payers

Ensuring Access to Behavioral Health Care: Making Integrated Care a Reality

This is invited testimony to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee during the hearing on "Behavioral Health Care When Americans Need It: Ensuring Parity and Care Integration" about making behavioral health services accessible to Americans, including care for substance use disorders.

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

Capacity of Primary Care to Deliver Telehealth in the United States

Study of the capacity of primary care practices around the country to provide health services, including mental health and substance use treatment, via telehealth, with suggestions for future implementation of telehealth expansion in primary care

Alcohol Use Disorder: The Role of Medication in Recovery

Reviews the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved and off-label medications for the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD), concluding that medication should be used in conjunction with behavioral therapy and that there is a need for continued development of pharmacotherapies for AUD

Alcohol Screening During US Primary Care Visits, 2014-2016

Explored U.S. primary care providers' use of screening tools and delivery of counseling for unhealthy alcohol use (UAU), finding that screening for UAU using a validated tool is not commonly performed during primary care visits; interventions may be needed to increase implementation

Telebehavioral Health and Opioid Use Disorder

This section of the Rural Health Toolkit includes examples of innovative telehealth approaches to provide care for people with opioid use disorder in rural communities.

Telemedicine Risk Management Considerations

This whitepaper examines telehealth risks utilizing the eight American Society for Health Care Risk Management (ASHRM) enterprise risk management (ERM) domains.

Bloomberg American Health Initiative - Fentanyl FORECAST Study

An informational page on the Bloomberg American Health Initiative website which details facts and resources from their Fentanyl Overdose Reduction Checking Analysis Study (FORECAST).

Helping People Who Use Opioids and Stimulants

This brief describes research documenting the added challenges stimulant use contributes to those who use opioids and patient-centered approaches for working with people who use stimulants that are enrolled in medication treatment for opioid use disorder.

Opioids and Stimulants: What Are They and How Are People Using Them

This brief reviews opioid and stimulant trends in availability, use, and impacts; compares opioids and stimulants in terms of drug effects and motivations for use; and examines the factors that drive co-use.

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