Email UpdatesTreatment of Stimulant Use Disorders
This guide describes relevant research findings, examines best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources for treating stimulant use disorders.
Policymakers and Payers
Speaking the Same Language: A Toolkit for Strengthening Patient-Centered Addiction Care in the United States
This toolkit offers high-level strategies for integrating The American Society of Addiction Medicine Criteria into a state’s approach to SUD services, as well as potential pathways, implementation vehicles, state examples, model legislative, regulatory, and contractual language.
Reimbursement for Medications for Addiction Treatment Toolkit
This guide provides considerations and strategies for clinicians and organizations implementing evidence-based practices. Approaches presented will assist clinicians, behavioral health organizations, primary care providers, insurers, and policy makers in understanding, selecting, and implementing evidence-based interventions that support adults with concurrent substance use and/or concurrent substance use disorders, including alcohol.
Increasing Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: Policy Strategies During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
This brief explores COVID-19 policy changes related to access to medications for opioid use disorder and recommends changes to keep in place beyond the emergency period.
Guidance on Handling the Increasing Prevalence of Drugs Adulterated or Laced with Fentanyl
This paper offers principle and recommendations for remediating the impacts of the rising rates of drugs adulterated or laced with fentanyl.
Use of Telemedicine While Providing Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
Discusses policies related to using telemedicine for providing MAT
Substance Use Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Among Medicaid Patients in Wisconsin: Impacts on Healthcare Utilization and Costs
Examines the association between providing SBIRT and healthcare costs, demonstrating that SBIRT was associated with a savings of $391 per Medicaid beneficiary
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Opportunities for State MCH Programs
Information about the importance of SBIRT for pregnant and postpartum women and the role of State maternal and child health programs, including implementation examples from several different States
Report to Congress: Utilization Management of Medication-Assisted Treatment in Medicaid
Report to Congress describing different options for medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for substance use disorders, Federal and State policies outlining Medicaid coverage for MAT across the United States, and summarizing utilization of MAT among Medicaid beneficiaries
Quick Facts: Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment
Highlights the benefits and goals of SBIRT, including its cost-effectiveness, in a one-page summary