Payers and providers play an important role in addressing the opioid crisis in our communities. This page highlights the most recently added resources specifically targeting healthcare providers, healthcare system employees, and individuals who manage private and public insurance plans. These resources, identified with blue tiles, include patient and provider education materials, clinical practice guidelines and practice protocols, and research and reports about insurance coverage and benefit design around addiction treatment and pain management.
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The Online Museum of African American Addictions, Treatment and Recovery was created by Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC, to serve as a central location for information about addictions, treatment, and recovery among African Americans.
This brochure provides introduction to Alateen, which provides supports to young people what have been affected by alcohol use of a family member or close friend.
A 2 page fact sheet about Al-Anon and Alateen, organizations that provide support to anyone affected by a relative or friend’s use of alcohol.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration substance use treatment locator website allows users to submit a zip code and receive a list of treatment providers near by.
This policy brief from the National Academy for State Health Policy reviews Medicaid strategies for identifying and caring for pregnant women with substance use disorders. The report provides a high-level overview of programs operational in 5 states: Connecticut, Florida, Tennessee, Montana, and Vermont.
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.
The Connecticut Department of Public Health convened stakeholders over 2 years to discuss the impact that substance use has on the workforce and workplace and develop recommendations for human resource best practices around substance use disorder (SUD).
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a collaborative federal-state-industry data project that provides encounter-level health care data. This link is to the dashboard for data on neonatal abstinence syndrome or neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome in newborn hospitalizations.
Sesame Street in Communities website about parental addiction provides resources for parents, caregivers, educators, and health care providers who help children with family members struggling with addiction. The website provides printable materials, videos and other resources designed to support children.
The Improving Addiction Care Team, or IMPACT, is an interprofessional hospital-based addictions team that meets people with substance use disorder (SUD) during the reachable moment of hospitalization at Oregon Health & Science University.