Read the full report @ A Stakeholder-driven Action Plan for Improving Pain Management, Opioid Use, and Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Through Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support
The Opioid Action Plan Working Group focused its efforts in 2018 t
Read more…Read the Huffington Post's full article @ Single Dad Has Fostered More Than 50 Young Men In The Last 12 Years
On the Evidence Podcast
Mathematica data scientist Cindy Hu discusses chemicals/contaminants in tap water quality, their health impli
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learn more @ https://nashp.org/states-may-soon-have-to-provide-medication-assisted-treatment-to-inmates-her
Read more…Use of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Criminal Justice Settings
SAMHSA guide published July 2019: This guide focuses on using medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in jails and prisons and during the reentry p
Read more…For An Option To Address Social Determinants Of Health, Look To Medicaid
by: Karen DeSalvo and Michael O. Leavitt
Key ideas from the blog:
A peek into opioid users' brains as they try to quit
National Judicial Opioid Task Force
Resource center for the courts!
As an effort to find solutions for the current opioid crisis, the National Center for State Courts has developed an evolving resource center which provides information and resources
Read more…National Judicial Opioid Task Force
Resource center for the courts!
As an effort to find solutions for the current opioid crisis, the National Center for State Courts has developed an evolving resource center which provides information and resources fo
Read more…One focus of the Gravity Project is the rapid standardization of the social determinants of health (SDoH)! Common language is vital for moving forward with a baseline mutual understanding. Standardization of the SDoH will enable th
Read more…"Children whose births are unplanned are likelier to have health complications, to be born into poverty, to stop their education sooner and to earn less. Mothers of unplanned children tend to give birth when they are younger, leave school earlier and
Read more…The Ripple Effect: The Impact of the Opioid Epidemic on Children and Families
The United Hospital Fund, supported by the Millbank Memorial Fund, d
Read more…Important partnerships are being made to address the opioid epidemic and the multide of factors that come with this public health crisis. The
Read more…“Deaths of Despair” – Prevention for a Growing Crisis
https://www.milbank.org/2019/01/deaths-of-despair-prevention-for-a-growing-crisis/
"...to be effective we must recognize the economic and social equivalents of public health prevention – the opioid
Read more…Municipal water testing as an innovative approach to track + measure drug use.
Key Findings:
