Health homes may increase access to mental health care and substance use disorder treatment in Medicaid enrollees with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders.

This tip sheet provides guidelines for how health plans and provider organizations can use more person-centered language.

Virginia’s comprehensive Medicaid reform for substance use treatment services led to an increase in outpatient and community-based treatment and a decrease in emergency department and inpatient use among beneficiaries with opioid use disorder.

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.

Discharge to medical respite care leads to lower hospital readmission rates among individuals who are frequently admitted to the hospital.

Effectively implementing medications for addiction treatment programs in primary care settings.

Up to 50 percent of opioid overdose deaths reported from state agency data had the potential to be averted if interventions were delivered at certain opioid prescribing or critical encounter touchpoints.

Participation in syringe service programs can support motivation to change substance use behaviors and increase treatment participation in a rural setting.

An interdisciplinary, hospital-based addiction medicine consultation team improved substance use disorder treatment engagement after hospitalization.

A tool helps providers capture essential information when interviewing people experiencing unsheltered homelessness to support effective treatment planning.

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Supportive housing placement for people with substance use disorder (SUD) who are homeless reduces SUD-related health care utilization.

Medication-assisted treatment in correctional settings improves substance use treatment engagement and reduces illicit opioid use post-release.

Telehealth may address barriers to accessing substance use disorder interventions and is a promising alternative to in-person treatment.

Details the main elements of a hospital-based addiction care consultation team.

Strategies for preventing opioid use disorder.

Statewide jail and prison implementation of medication for addiction treatment program in Rhode Island led to a significant decrease in overdose deaths post-incarceration.

Qualitative study highlights success factors and implementation challenges for state opioid health home programs.

This resource describes the value of navigators for Medicaid beneficiaries with mental illness.

Details the key considerations for providers considering integrating peer services for behavioral health into their health care organizations.