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HHS Proposes New Protections to Increase Care Coordination and Confidentiality for Patients with Substance Use Challenges
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department, through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), recently announced proposed changes to the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Patient...
Envisioning Minimally Disruptive Opioid Use Disorder Care
Most people who need and want treatment for opioid addiction cannot access it. Among those who do get treatment, only a fraction receive evidence-based, life-saving medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). Many facets of our health systems and policies create...
Updated NC Statewide Overdose Surveillance Reports – November 2022
The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the Division of Public Health recently posted an update of suspected overdose deaths, fentanyl-positive deaths, and provisional data on ED visits for overdose. Data quality issues for the ED visits for Overdose Involving...
Drug Overdose Deaths Among U.S. Seniors Have Tripled Since 2000
Drug overdose deaths more than tripled among people age 65 and older during the past two decades while deaths from alcohol misuse increased more than 18% from 2019 to 2020, according to data by the National Center for Health Statistics. More than 800,000 seniors...
SAMHSA Proposes Update to Federal Rules to Expand Access to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and Help Close Gap in Care
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is proposing to expand access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) at a time when more than 107,000 Americans lost their lives...
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