This report summarizes strategies rural communities can adopt to address substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD). The report addresses a comprehensive list of issues including:
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Oregon Recovery Network
Source: Oregon Recovery Network
This website is the home of the Oregon Recovery Network’s Covid-19 response page. Oregon Recovers has created a centralized source of information on Covid-19 for the Oregon recovery community including
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Peer and Recovery Specialist Support
Source: National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare
The website for peer and recovery support services at the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare includes reports to download and links to resources, trainings, and webinars.
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Ohio START Program
Source: Public Children Services Association of Ohio
The Ohio Sobriety, Treatment, and Reducing Trauma (START) Program provides wrap-around services to children and families impacted by opiates and other drugs.
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Connections App
Source: Addiction Policy Forum and CHESS Health
This free smartphone app is designed to support individuals in recovery from substance use disorder.
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Project Nurture – A Center of Excellence Model that Integrates Maternity Care and Addiction Treatment
Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
A one page guide to Project Nurture, a Center of Excellence program that provides prenatal care, inpatient maternity care, and postpartum care for women with substance use disorder as well as pediatric care for their infants. The integrated delivery model includes physicians, certified alcohol and drug counselors and peer support specialists in the treatment team. The model has been adopted by multiple sites, some of which incorporate addiction treatment into a primary care clinic and some which incorporate maternity and pediatric care into an addiction treatment facility. Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
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Project Nurture: An Overview of the Model
Source: Health Share of Oregon
This 3 minute video explains the Project Nurture model of providing prenatal, maternity, and post partum care to women with substance use disorders and pediatric care for the infants. The model provides an integrated, interdisciplinary team treatment model that includes maternity and substance use disorder treatment along with peer support services and assistance with child welfare issues if needed. Funding Source: Health Share of Oregon
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Expanding Access to Community-based Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Source: Ucare Health Plan and the Hennepin County Health and Human Services Department
This case study looks at an innovative strategy to provide community based substance use disorder services for individuals dually insured by Medicare and Medicaid in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
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Improving Access to Evidence-Based Medical Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder: Strategies to Address Key Barriers within the Treatment System
Source: B.K. Madras, N.J.Ahmad, J. Wen, J. Scharfstein and the Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Working Group of the, Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
This discussion paper from researchers affiliated with the National Academy of Medicine identifies strategies to increase access to evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) in health care settings. Effective OUD treatment includes access to medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, or extended-release naltrexone as well as opportunities to receive additional services such as behavioral counseling, case management, and peer support.
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Project Nurture – A New Model of Care that Integrates Maternity Care and Substance Use Treatment
Source: Health Share of Oregon
A 2 page overview of Project Nurture, a Center of Excellence program that provides prenatal care, inpatient maternity care, and postpartum care for women with substance use disorder as well as pediatric care for their infants. The integrated delivery model includes physicians, certified alcohol and drug counselors and peer support specialists in the treatment team. The model has been adopted by multiple sites, some of which incorporate addiction treatment into a primary care clinic and some which incorporate maternity and pediatric care into an addiction treatment facility. This paper provides a brief summary of the Project Nurture evaluations which showed positive outcomes for Project Nurture participants compared to women with substance use disorder provided usual maternity care. Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon