This 3 page patient guide addresses maintaining substance use disorder treatment during the Covid-19 public health emergency from the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine. Continue reading
Resource Tag: Opioid Use Disorder
Opioid Use Disorder
Association of Punitive and Reporting State Policies Related to Substance Use in Pregnancy with Rates of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
The authors of this open-source journal article looked at whether the enactment of policies that penalized substance use in pregnancy was associated in changes in the rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) reported in those states. Continue reading
Medications for Opioids Use Disorder Save Lives
This 2 minute video accompanies the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s report Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives. Continue reading
Using Medicaid to Advance Evidence-based Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: A Toolkit for State Medicaid Leaders
This toolkit by Manatt provides promising strategies state Medicaid agencies can adopt to address the substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD) crisis in their states. Continue reading
Making the Business Case for an Addiction Medicine Consult Service: A Qualitative Analysis
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. Continue reading
Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) – A Summary
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. Continue reading
The Improving Addiction Care Team – IMPACT
This collection compiles research and implementation materials from the Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) program from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). IMPACT is an interprofessional, hospital-based addictions team that provides addiction medicine consults to patients being treated at OHSU who have a substance use disorder (SUD). Continue reading
Project IMPACT at OHSU
This 3 minute video describes Project IMPACT (Improving Addiction Care Team) operating at Oregon Health and Science University. The video includes program director Honora Englander, M.D., Melissa Weimer, D.O. and peer-recovery counselor O’Nesha Cochran. Continue reading
Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Medication Procedures, Alternatives, Risks and Questions
This document serves as a template for conducting informed consent (also known as PARQs – procedures, alternatives, risks and questions) for patients beginning medication assisted treatment with buprenorphine or naltrexone. Continue reading
Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT): Sample Letter to Parole & Probation Officer
This sample letter is for health care providers to send to parole and probation officers notifying them that an individual under supervision is being treated in the hospital and has been connected to substance use disorder treatment. Continue reading