Email UpdatesWork Safety Topic - Overdose Deaths
This chart includes workplace data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on unintentional overdose deaths involving the nonmedical use of drugs or alcohol from 2011-2021.
States
State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS)
SUDORS provides comprehensive data on unintentional and undetermined intent drug overdose deaths collected from death certificates and medical examiner/coroner reports.
Telehealth Has Played an Outsized Role Meeting Mental Health Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This issue brief analyzes telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses how telehealth has improved access to mental health and substance use services.
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
Strengthening Behavioral Healthcare to Meet the Needs of Our Nation
Describes how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing strategies to ensure patients are receiving health care services to meet their behavioral health needs and how CMS is working to meet the goals of President Biden's "Strategy to Address our National Mental Health Crisis"
How States Are Leveraging Payment to Improve the Delivery of SUD Services
This toolkit discusses Medicaid payment strategies in Arizona, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania that are being used to improve the delivery of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment for patients insured through Medicaid.
Making Progress on Integration of Behavioral Health Care and Other Medical Care
Proposes key strategies and policy opportunities for integrating behavioral health care and other medical care as well as an overview of payment reforms that can incentivize integration
Fact Sheet: President Biden to Announce Strategy to Address Our National Mental Health Crisis, As Part of Unity Agenda in His First State of the Union
Statement from the White House that describes the President's strategy to address the national mental health crisis by strengthening the healthcare system, connecting more people to mental health care, and transforming health and social services infrastructure to address mental health equitably
Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT)
Provides information on the EPSDT benefit for children under age 21 enrolled in Medicaid, including guidelines and strategy guides for State programs
State Maternal Mortality Review Committees (MMRCs) Address Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health to Improve Maternal Health
Maternal Mortality Review Committees (MMRCs) are multi-disciplinary committees that convene at the state or local level to comprehensively review deaths of women during or within a year of pregnancy. This document summarizes substance use disorder findings in a recent review of MMRC data in 14 states.