Opioid Use Disorder
This conversation shares how integrated care models, addiction consult services and peer navigators are improving care transitions and increasing access to evidence-based treatment.
Heidi Bray, DNP, nurse practitioner and hospitalist at Providence St. Peter Hospital, explores how hospitals can improve opioid use disorder treatment through stronger discharge planning, medication for opioid use disorder, or MOUD, and better connections to community care.
In this conversation, Heidi Bray, DNP, nurse practitioner and hospitalist at Providence St. Peter Hospital, explores how hospitals can improve opioid use disorder treatment.
The Drug Enforcement Administration today released a final rule implementing provisions from the Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act of 2022, which passed as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, eliminating the need for a separate waiver for…
The Health Resources and Services Administration will award grants to rural hospitals and other providers from two areas of its Rural Communities Opioid Response Program.
The White House issued an executive order Jan. 29 to address substance use and addiction. The order establishes the White House Great American Recovery Initiative, a federal effort tasked with coordinating the administration’s efforts on the matter.
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital’s Connecticut Mental Health Center has a certified opiate addiction counselor that helps individuals who are dependent on opiates connect with resources throughout the region.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Dec. 30 released a temporary rule extending for the fourth time waiver flexibilities for prescribing controlled substances via telemedicine.
A Health Affairs study published Nov. 3 examined an increase in states banning prior authorizations in private insurance plans for opioid use disorder medications.
HHS awards $1.5 billion in opioid response grants to states, tribal communities The Department of Health and Human Services announced yesterday that it will award more than $1.5 billion in opioid response grants to states and tribal communities through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health…