Updates
Increased Availability of Telehealth Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment for Peripartum and Postpartum Women
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, several federal, state, and payor policy changes have facilitated the uptake of telehealth service delivery. These changes have resulted in a significant uptick in the utilization of maternal mental health and substance use...
Addiction Experts Sound Alarm as Overdoses Rise Over COVID-19
While the world has been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, the existing overdose epidemic has continued to skyrocket, with a record high 70,000 deaths in 2019. Nora Voklow, M.D., Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), explains, “We do not yet have...
HHS Expands Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced it is eliminating the medication-assisted treatment (MAT) waiver requirement for some physicians. HHS will publish Practice Guidelines for the Administration of Buprenorphine for Treating Opioid Use...
Combination Treatment for Methamphetamine Use Disorder Shows Promise in NIH Study
A combination of two medications, injectable naltrexone and oral bupropion, was safe and effective in treating adults with moderate or severe methamphetamine use disorder. That’s the finding of a double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III clinical trial, published in...
New CDC Training and Resources for Safer Opioid Prescribing
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new suite of training tools and resources to help clinicians and healthcare executives apply CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain in clinical settings: Addressing the Opioid Overdose...
CDC Health Advisory: Increase in Fatal Drug Overdoses Across U.S. Driven by Synthetic Opioids Before & During COVID-19 Pandemic
The purpose of this Health Alert Network (HAN) Advisory is to alert public health departments, healthcare professionals, first responders, harm reduction organizations, laboratories, and medical examiners and coroners to — (1) substantial increases in drug overdose...
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