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.
If you’d like to submit materials for inclusion consideration or suggest a future featured topic, please visit CLOUD’s call for submissions page.
This case study describes the Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) model developed at Oregon Health & Science University to provide addiction medicine consultations during inpatient hospitalization and provide transitions to community based substance use disorder treatment upon discharge.
This one page infographic from the Addiction Policy Forum focuses on the importance of using appropriate and non-stigmatizing language when discussing substance use disorders.
This 2017 article describes the steps taken by a group of physicians, substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers, and community representatives to establish an addiction care program for hospital inpatients at Oregon Health & Science University. The program includes
These 2016 guidelines from the West Virginia Attorney General’s provide recommendations for health care providers prescribing opioids for their patients. The best practice recommendations cover how to check West Virginia’s Controlled Substance Monitoring Program, how to
These 2016 guidelines from the West Virginia Attorney General’s provide recommendations for pharmacists dispensing prescriptions for opioids for pain. The best practice recommendations cover how to check West Virginia’s Controlled Substance Monitoring Program, how to verify legitimacy of the patient and prescription, how to evaluate the safety and appropriateness of the
The website for Overdose Lifeline, Inc, an Indiana nonprofit that works with individuals, families and communities to address the consequences of the opioid epidemic. Their programs include education and training about opioid-related issues for individuals and first responders, and youth prevention and education programs. They also
Addiction researchers and treatment providers have increasingly advocated moving away from an acute-care model of treatment to embracing Recovery Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC) which emphasize person-centered and self-directed pathways to recovery with an emphasis on building on the strengths and resilience of individuals, families and communities.
This collection includes resources that define and explain recovery from many perspectives. Within this collection, users will find links to the following information:
This collection features reports and websites that address recovery in special populations.
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.