Interdisciplinary primary care models can help reduce acute care use for individuals with histories of high emergency department use, homelessness, or substance use disorder.
A hospital-based program showed that peer recovery coaching can be seamlessly integrated into the workflow of busy emergency departments to address the longer-term needs of people with substance use disorders.
Systematic review finds that gender-response programs are associated with reductions in reincarceration for women with substance use disorder leaving jail or prison.
A participatory design approach created a nurse-driven screening process to better identify and treat people with opioid use disorder in the emergency department.
Peer providers with lived experiences of substance use and mental health disorders can help improve patient outcomes and play a unique role in the behavioral health workforce.
A longitudinal study found that members of recovery community centers had increased rates of substance use abstinence, psychological well-being, and quality of life after three months of engagement.
Peer recovery services offered to people with substance use disorder returning to community from incarceration is shown to reduce substance use and improve health and treatment motivation.
Initiative successfully implemented several evidence-based and promising addiction care models across multiple medical settings, including an inpatient addiction consult team, a low-threshold bridge clinic, peer recovery coaches, and office-based addiction treatment nurses.
Toolkit offers health care stakeholders in rural areas with practical information to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of community paramedicine programs.
Describes how health care providers and their correctional agency partners can design medications for addiction treatment programs for people with opioid use disorder in jails and prisons.