Policymakers and Payers

This guidance publication is intended to support the efforts of states, tribes, and local communities in addressing the needs of pregnant women with opioid use disorders and their infants and families.

This webinar discusses substance use disorders (SUDs), including Opioid Use Disorder, as a disability and federal disability rights protections for individuals receiving MAT.

The National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW), together with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), created this training series to provide information to child welfare and court professionals about federal disability rights protections that apply to some parents with an opioid or other substance use disorder who are involved with child welfare.

This video offers an in-depth look at MAT while addressing common misconceptions about the treatment. It highlights strategies that inform effective child welfare and court practices and addresses common misconceptions.

This toolkit, informed by interviews with key leaders across several states, examines state policy actions at each of the intercept levels defined in the Sequential Intercept Model framework, and explores opportunities for states to successfully integrate treatment and prevention services across the behavioral health and criminal justice continuum.

This brief provides summary findings from a 2019, pre-pandemic review of the evidence of telebehavioral health's effectiveness on key clinical outcomes. It also describes the programmatic structure and relevant telebehavioral health policies of three programs: Texas Medicaid, Massachusetts Medicaid, and the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center Rural Telemental Health Program.

This brief provides an overview of state Medicaid opioid use disorder (OUD) care delivery innovations and offers recent examples from state Medicaid programs based on findings from an OUD policy inventory of nine state Medicaid programs that have been substantially impacted by the opioid epidemic and participate in the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network.

This primer examines the policy levers available to improve access and quality of substance use disorder treatment and recovery services.

This toolkit is a guide to help health care and social service organization leaders and providers improve care coordination for women with opioid use disorder in Health Resources and Services Administration-supported programs and other settings of care.

This policy brief explores strategies for ensuring people in jails and prisons have uninterrupted access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) during the pandemic. These include taking advantage of a new federal waiver that allows providers to initiate MOUD via telemedicine, without a prior physical examination; providing adequate medication supplies upon release; and offering virtual counseling and peer support.