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Understanding Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Understanding Substance Use Disorder Treatment Needs Using Assessment Data: Final Report

UNDERSTANDING SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER (SUD) TREATMENT NEEDS USING ASSESSMENT DATA: FINAL REPORT John Richardson, PhD, Alex Cowell, PhD, Eric Villeneuve, MPH, Jesse Hinde, PhD, Kristine Rae Olmstead, MSPH, and Sarita Karon, PhD RTI International February 2020 Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (43 PDF pages)
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Understanding Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Understanding Substance Use Disorder Treatment Needs Using Assessment Data: Final Report

UNDERSTANDING SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER (SUD) TREATMENT NEEDS USING ASSESSMENT DATA: FINAL REPORT John Richardson, PhD, Alex Cowell, PhD, Eric Villeneuve, MPH, Jesse Hinde, PhD, Kristine Rae Olmstead, MSPH, and Sarita Karon, PhD RTI International February 2020 Link to HTML Version (43 PDF pages)
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Understanding Substance Use Coercion as a Barrier

Understanding Substance Use Coercion as a Barrier to Economic Stability for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Policy Implications

Substance use coercion occurs when perpetrators of intimate partner violence undermine and control their partners through substance-use related tactics and actively keep them from meeting treatment and recovery goals.
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State Residential Treatment for Behavioral Health

State Residential Treatment for Behavioral Health Conditions: Regulation and Policy Environmental Scan

STATE RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONDITIONS: REGULATION AND POLICY ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN Maureen T. Stewart, PhD; Peggy L. O'Brien, PhD; Morgan C. Shields, MSc, MA; Mackenzie C. White, BA; and Norah Mulvaney-Day, PhD IBM Watson Health November 2019 Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (37 PDF pages)
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State Residential Treatment for Behavioral Health

State Residential Treatment for Behavioral Health Conditions: Regulation and Policy Environmental Scan

The objective of this environmental scan is to summarize the peer-reviewed and grey literature on oversight of residential care for mental health and substance use care in the United States, excluding inpatient hospital care. The scan provides a framework for defining residential treatment services, summarizes who is treated in residential care, a
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Using Telehealth to Identify and Manage Health

Using Telehealth to Identify and Manage Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Conditions in Rural Areas

Access to services, particularly behavioral health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services, is challenging in rural and other underserved areas. Some of the reasons for these challenges include lack of specialty providers and local primary care providers without experience in behavioral health treatment as well as concerns over stigma
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Using Telehealth to Identify and Manage Health

Using Telehealth to Identify and Manage Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Conditions in Rural Areas

RTI International September 15, 2017 Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (70 PDF pages)
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Using Telehealth to Support Opioid Use Disorder

Using Telehealth to Support Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Issue Brief

This Issue Brief was informed by an ASPE-funded study conducted by RTI International that assessed the use of telehealth to identify and manage SUDs in rural areas. The final research brief included an environmental scan and site visits with participants that represented a wide range of telehealth experiences throughout the country.
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Using Telehealth to Support Opioid Use Disorder

Using Telehealth to Support Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Issue Brief

Laura Dunlap, Saira Haque, and Erin Mallonee RTI International Joel Dubenitz, Laurel Fuller, and Daniel Schwartz U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (5 PDF pages)
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Development and Testing of Behavioral Health

Development and Testing of Behavioral Health Quality Measures for Health Plans: Final Report

Jonathan Brown, Sarah Hudson Scholle, Sarah Croake, Miriam Rosenau, Junquing Liu, Nathan Darter, Kelsey Farson Gray, Menolly Hart, Bonnie Harvey, Rita Lewis, Dean Miller, Suzanne Morton, Milesh Patel, and Christine Ranshous Mathematica Policy Research Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (98 PDF pages)
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Development and Testing of Behavioral Health

Development and Testing of Behavioral Health Quality Measures for Health Plans: Final Report

Many people with behavioral health disorders receive suboptimal care and suffer poor health outcomes, including premature death. States, health plans, providers, and other stakeholders need a strong set of measures targeting this population to improve the quality of their care. In this project, we developed and tested measures reported by health p
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PROJECT INFORMATION AND ADDITIONAL REPORTS

Review of Medication-Assisted Treatment Guidelines and Measures for Opioid and Alcohol Use. Project Information and Additional Reports

DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH QUALITY MEASURES
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REFERENCES

Review of Medication-Assisted Treatment Guidelines and Measures for Opioid and Alcohol Use. References

American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). "Opioid Addiction Disease 2015 Facts and Figures." Available at http://www.asam.org/docs/default-source/advocacy/opioid-addiction-disease-facts-figures.pdf .
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F. SUMMARY

Review of Medication-Assisted Treatment Guidelines and Measures for Opioid and Alcohol Use. F. Summary

The guidelines provide recommendations on the use of MAT across treatment phases with an emphasis on the maintenance phase. Most of the guidelines were developed based upon expert opinion and scientific literature. Some guidelines focus on special populations and over half mention psychosocial treatment. The strength of the recommendation varies f
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E. SUMMARY OF MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT

Review of Medication-Assisted Treatment Guidelines and Measures for Opioid and Alcohol Use. E. Summary of Medication-assisted Treatment Quality Measures

TABLE 3 . MAT for Opioid Use Measures Measure Denominator Numerator
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D. VARIATION IN KEY FEATURES OF MEDICATION-

Review of Medication-Assisted Treatment Guidelines and Measures for Opioid and Alcohol Use. D. Variation in Key Features of Medication-assisted Treatment Clinical Guidelines

Stages of Treatment . Both opioid and alcohol use MAT guidelines tend to focus on stages of treatment -- assessment, withdrawal management (also referred to as detoxification), and maintenance -- whereby the recommended dosage of medication and frequency and intensity of MAT vary with the stage of treatment and the client's needs.
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C. SUMMARY OF MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT

Review of Medication-Assisted Treatment Guidelines and Measures for Opioid and Alcohol Use. C. Summary of Medication-assisted Treatment

TABLE 1 . Summary of MAT Guidelines for Opioid Use Guideline Name (publication year) (appendix table #) Setting Stage(s) of
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B. APPROACH TO REVIEW

Review of Medication-Assisted Treatment Guidelines and Measures for Opioid and Alcohol Use. B. Approach to Review

Even though the roadmap focuses on MAT for opioid use, we recognize that clinical guidelines and measures related to MAT for alcohol and other SUDs could be useful to guide the approach to developing and implementing MAT measures for opioid use. As such, we searched for and reviewed clinical guidelines that include MAT for opioid and alcohol use p
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A. INTRODUCTION

Review of Medication-Assisted Treatment Guidelines and Measures for Opioid and Alcohol Use. A. Introduction

Opioid overdoses claim 17,000 American lives annually (ASAM 2015). Deaths by opioid overdose have nearly quadrupled from 1999 to 2013 (CDC 2015). Nearly 2.5 million Americans are currently at risk for overdoses -- 1.9 million are opioid-dependent, and 517,000 are addicted to heroin (ASAM 2015). In response to the growing opioid epidemic, the U.S.
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ACRONYMS

Review of Medication-Assisted Treatment Guidelines and Measures for Opioid and Alcohol Use. Acronyms

The following acronyms are mentioned in this report and/or appendices.

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