Assigning dually eligible individuals with mental illness to ACOs was associated with shifts to lower-cost outpatient settings, but did not affect overall spending and utilization.

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

Primary care medical home improved use of preventive services, chronic illness care, care experience, psychotic symptoms, and mental health-related quality of life for people with serious mental illness.

Describes how community-based participatory action research, especially in peer-based mental health settings, can advance community empowerment and health equity.

Individuals with behavioral health diagnoses who are released from jails are less likely to return to jail if they receive behavioral health services after release.

Featured presenters with on-the-ground experience implementing the CA Bridge model for individuals with substance use disorder.

Identifies best practices for implementing peer support interventions and advancing recovery-oriented care within mental health organizations.

This free, paper-based version of the nationally-recognized ASAM Criteria assessment is available to clinicians to increase the quality and consistency of patient assessments and treatment recommendations for adults with substance use disorder.

Evidence-based behavioral intervention in which positive behaviors are reinforced with material incentives may address clinical problems among people receiving medications for opioid use disorder.

Emergency department-initiated buprenorphine for opioid-dependent patients demonstrated significantly higher rates of addiction treatment engagement than interventions without buprenorphine.

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.

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

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.

An outpatient addiction treatment program intervention to facilitate connections to primary care improved patient health care engagement.

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

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