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Making the Business Case for an Addiction Medicine Consult Service: A Qualitative Analysis

Source: Kelsey Priest & Dennis McCarty

This open-source journal article explains how addiction medicine physicians from 14 U.S. hospitals made a business case to create addiction medicine consult (AMC) services in their facilities. The article analyzes interviews with the 14 physician leaders, provides information about their experiences designing and implementing AMC services and includes a list of resources for health care champions who wish to create an AMC service in their hospital. Includes references to relevant articles in proprietary, peer-reviewed journals.

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Getting Started with Medication-Assisted Treatment with Lessons from Advancing Recovery

Source: Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment

This 2010 report describes the experiences of grantees who participated in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State/Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care program between 2005 and 2010. It describes lessons learned by grantees as they established medication assisted treatment programs in their organizations.

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Dental School SBIRT Curriculum: Foundational Training for SUDs

Source: Opioid Response Network

This resource links to 2 free trainings on Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) interventions for dental and healthcare providers offered by HealthEKnowledge.

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Responding to the Prescription Opioid Crisis

Source: Association for Community Affiliated Plans

This 2017 report from the Association for Community Affiliated Plans describes innovative practices designed to address opioid misuse and treat opioid use disorder (OUD) implemented in 5 Medicaid managed care organizations across the country. The practices focus on prevention and detection of misuse of

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Comparison of Opioid Prescribing by Dentists in the United States and England

Source: JAMA Network Open

This 2019 journal article compares dentist opioid prescribing rates in the United States and England. While dental service rates are generally similar between the countries, US dentists prescribed opioids 37 times more than English dentists, they prescribed a greater range of opioid medications, and also prescribed long acting opioids which English dentists did not.

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Operationalizing and Funding Youth and Parent Peer Support Roles in Residential Treatment Settings

Source: SAMHSA & The TA Network

This 7-page report provides an overview of operationalizing and funding youth and parent peer support services in residential treatment settings. The report defines the continuum of services from involvement to engagement, describes the services provided by youth and parent peer support, and provides an overview of financing and sustainability strategies.

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Medicaid Funding for Family and Youth Peer Support Programs in the United States

Source: SAMHSA & The TA Network

This 2020 overview of state Medicaid coverage of family and youth peer support services, prepared by the Institute for Innovation and Implementation at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, describes the efforts of states who reimburse for these peer support services.

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Providing Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Through Medicaid

Source: SAMHSA & The TA Network

This2016 report explores options for providing youth and young adult peer support through Medicaid from the Center for Health Care Strategy and Youth MOVE National.

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