Peer-reviewed Articles and Reports

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  • Prevention

This is an academic paper that examines the risk of prescription opioid misuse among children of parents that report using prescription opioids. The study did find an increased risk suggested that restricting the availability and accessibility of prescription opioids in the home, such as drug…

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  • Treatment

This academic paper provides a summary on state-level policy data relevant to opioid use disorder treament reported by government and non profit agencies that track healthcare regulations. The four areas this report focuses on are tele-health, privacy, licensing, and medication for opioid use…

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  • Treatment

This is an academic paper that explores how methadone and buprenorphine capacity vary by race/ethnicity. Study findings show that counties with highly segregated black/African American and Hispanic/Latinx communities had more facilities to provide methadone per capita, while counties with highly…

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  • Harm Reduction

This is an academic paper showing that providing take-home naloxone to clients of opioid treatment providers (e.g. methadone clinics) is a good harm reduction strategy to reduce negative outcomes associated with opioid overdose in the community. Of the 395 participants enrolled in this study, 73…

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  • Prevention

This is an issue brief from SAMHSA that provides an overview of national trends related to opioid misuse and overdose, explains opioid risk factors and routes to access for youth, and describes school-based and school-community initiatives that address opioid prevention. The document includes an…

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  • Harm Reduction

This is an academic paper that discusses the creation of an innovative tool for the statewide distribution of naloxone to areas that have been most impacted and populations that are high risk. This tool provides states and communities with a data-driven decision-making process for naloxone…

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  • Treatment

This is an academic paper which presents a case study of efforts to implement the expansion of access to medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in the rural state of Montana. The study identified limits to the hub and spoke model used and offers suggestions for policies that could improve…

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  • Treatment

This is a qualitative evaluation of a training program in Washington that waivered physicians to prescribe buprenorphine. Several physicians were interviewed following the program to identify the different barriers to prescribing.

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  • Treatment
  • Recovery

This report describes the importance of integrating behavioral health services, including addiction treatment, into primary health care facilities in order to address substance use disorders in rural areas. Barriers to integration are described, federal resources listed, and recommendations on…

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  • Full continuum of care

This report identifies strategies to promote equity in behavioral health services to engage affected communities, incorporate the voice of people with lived experience, and establish processes for accountability. The report includes checklists of recommended initiatives that states and…

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  • Prevention
  • Treatment
  • Recovery

This is a report from the Rural Policy Research Institute that provides an overview of behavioral health in rural America with the goal of helping rural leaders and providers understand the issues related to rural mental health and substance use and give them resources and tools to develop…

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  • Prevention

This is an academic paper discussing the impact of the Washington State opioid dosing guidelines, which were associated with a decline in the mean dose for long‐acting opioids, the percent of claimants receiving opioid doses ≥120 mg morphine equivalent dose (MED) per day, and the number of…

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  • Prevention
  • Harm Reduction

This is an evidence brief from the Veterans Affairs Evidence Synthesis Program (authors Mackay et al.) that provides a review of 44 studies on patient outcomes following long-term opioid dose reduction or discontinuation, which include overdose and suicide. 

  • Treatment
  • Recovery
  • Harm Reduction

This is a report from the Canadian Centre for Substance Use and Addiction (author Taha) that outlines the standard of service that should be implemented to provide person-centered care to all people experiencing harms from opioids across the continuum of care, including a summary of actions…

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  • Prevention
  • Treatment

This academic paper outlines a study which utilized the Delphi approach to identify the best practices for overdose prevention and naloxone delivery (OEND). The investigators engaged with 27 experts on the topic of OEND who were asked to review and rank a given list of best practices. The…

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  • Treatment

This is an academic article that gives an overview of opioid use disorder treatment models in the emergency department (ED). The ASSERT Model employs peer workers to directly link patients to services, the…

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  • Harm Reduction

This report is published by the Center for Court Innovation and describes a reconstruction of current drug court practices through the lens of harm reduction and bridging the gap between these contrasting paradigms. The report suggests more effective ways for drug…

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  • Treatment
  • Harm Reduction

This is an article from EMS World, a journal tailored to emergency medical services, that summarizes the post-overdose response of Palm Beach County Fire Rescue (PBCFR), which includes utilizing both mobile integrated healthcare (MIH) as the bridge between EMS and long-term treatment and peer…

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  • Prevention

This is a report from the Georgia Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health that uses the Building Community Resilience (BCR) framework to connect the science behind the "Pair of ACEs" to real-world health care practice and public policy. Adverse childhood experiences and…

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  • Recovery

This is a peer-reviewed article that describes how to do a community needs assessment in the context of creating a “recovery-ready” community.

The Recovery Ready Ecosystem Model (RREM) and Recovery Ready Community Framework build upon the early work of the recovery-oriented systems of…

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