Background Acute-care interventions that identify patients with substance use disorders
(SUDs), initiate treatment, and link patients to community-based services, have proliferated …

Contingency management (ie rewarding people, often with money, for achieving their
recovery goals) is backed by decades of empirical support yet remains highly underutilized …

Unintentional overdose deaths, most involving opioids, have eclipsed all other causes of US
deaths for individuals less than 50 years of age. An estimated 2.4 to 5 million individuals …

Background Timely, precise, and localized surveillance of nonfatal events is needed to
improve response and prevention of opioid-related problems in an evolving opioid crisis in …

Background: A cascade of care (CoC) model may improve understanding of gaps in
addiction treatment availability and quality over current single measure methods. Despite …

Many people being treated for substance use disorders leave emergency departments
(EDs) without being connected to the appropriate care, resulting in increased risk of …

Background Measuring clinically relevant opioid-related problems in health care systems is
challenging due to the lack of standard definitions and coding practices. Well-defined, opioid …

Introduction The cascade of care for opioid use disorder (OUD) has been described at the
population level to inform health policy and in health care systems, programs, and …

Background: Over the past decade, hospitals and health systems have increasingly adopted
interventions to address the needs of patients with substance use disorders. The Opioid Use …

The opioid epidemic in the United States disproportionately affects Medicaid beneficiaries
than other groups. This results in a significant financial burden on state Medicaid programs …