Integrating Public Health and Health Care Strategies to Address the Opioid Epidemic: The Oregon Health Authority’s Opioid Initiative

This is an academic paper discussing The Opioid Initiative, launched in Oregon in 2015, which focuses on integrating efforts to improve patient care and safety, and population health, by increasing access to nonopioid pain treatment, supporting medications for opioid use disorder and naloxone access for people taking opioids, decreasing opioid prescribing, and using data to inform policies and interventions. This state initiative has shown promising results. 

Resource Type
Peer-reviewed Articles and Reports
Continuum of Care
Full continuum of care
Prevention
Treatment
Recovery
Harm Reduction
Response Approach
Cautious Opioid Prescribing
Comprehensive services
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Overdose prevention
Peer-reviewed Article
Citation

Hedberg, K., Bui, L.T., Livingston, C., Shields, L.M., Van Otterloo, J. (2019). Integrating Public Health and Health Care Strategies to Address the Opioid Epidemic: The Oregon Health Authority’s Opioid Initiative. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 25(3), 214-220.

State / region
West
Oregon