Black Medicaid enrollees who spent more days in the emergency department or county jail were less likely than white enrollees to receive medications for opioid use disorder.

A patient intervention that supported outpatient addiction treatment with destigmatized conversations about substance use between patients and primary care providers showed long-term benefits.

This guide offers resources to improve telehealth interventions for individuals at risk for, experiencing, or recovering from serious mental illness and/or substance use disorder.

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 Medicaid health home care management program led to improved diabetes care, benefitting people with co-occurring substance use disorders and diabetes.

A novel street psychiatry program offers essential mental health support to unsheltered individuals experiencing homelessness.

A pharmacist-led substance use disorder intervention improved treatment retention for patients with opioid and alcohol use disorder.

Personalized patient navigation supports for people with comorbid substance use disorders reduced rates of hospital readmissions and emergency department use.

Consumers and staff members of health and social service organizations share their community engagement experiences.

Enhanced primary care for adults with serious mental illness led to increases in primary care visits and health screenings as well as decreases in inpatient utilization.

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.

Housing First programs reduce homelessness and health care use more effectively than Treatment First approaches.

Toolkit offers health care stakeholders in rural areas with practical information to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of community paramedicine programs.

A randomized clinical trial of an 18-month comprehensive intervention showed significant reductions in cardiovascular disease risk in adults with serious mental illness.

Examines promising strategies to meet the needs of dually eligible individuals with serious mental illness, with an emphasis on opportunities to innovate with flexible spending within a capitated payment model.

Enhanced primary care for Medicaid enrollees with serious mental illness can help decrease emergency department use over time.

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) and tailored care coordination strategies may improve preventable hospitalizations and reduce racial disparities among patients with coexisting physical and mental health conditions.

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.

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.