This collection provides information about options to create programs that divert individuals with substance use or mental health conditions from the justice system to treatment.
Search Results for: mat (217 results)
Patients & Caregivers
Be in the Know – MAT for OUD
Source: Arizona Rethink RX Abuse
A fact sheet for patients and caregivers explaining Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD). This document primarily addresses opposition to MAT and clearly states that MAT does not adversely affect a person’s intelligence, mental capability, physical functioning
Payers & Providers
Why Health Plans Should Go to the MAT in the Fight Against Opioid Addiction
Source: California Health Care Foundation
This 2017 publication from the California Health Care Foundation makes the case that commercial and public health plans should make access to medication assisted treatment (MAT) a priority for patients with opioid use disorder. The report explains why MAT is so important, defines the access barriers to MAT, and provides strategies for health plans to implement in making MAT available for their patients. Funding Source: California Health Care Foundation
Payers & Providers
Project Nurture – A New Model of Care that Integrates Maternity Care and Substance Use Treatment
Source: Health Share of Oregon
A 2 page overview of Project Nurture, a Center of Excellence program that provides prenatal care, inpatient maternity care, and postpartum care for women with substance use disorder as well as pediatric care for their infants. The integrated delivery model includes physicians, certified alcohol and drug counselors and peer support specialists in the treatment team. The model has been adopted by multiple sites, some of which incorporate addiction treatment into a primary care clinic and some which incorporate maternity and pediatric care into an addiction treatment facility. This paper provides a brief summary of the Project Nurture evaluations which showed positive outcomes for Project Nurture participants compared to women with substance use disorder provided usual maternity care. Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
Policymakers & Community Leaders
MAT-Capable Recovery Residences: How State Policymakers Can Enhance and Expand Capacity to Adequately Support Medication Assisted Recovery
Source: National Alliance for Recovery Residences
The National Alliance for Recovery Residences published this guide to supporting the use of medication assisted treatment (MAT) in recovery housing programs in 2019. Directed at state and local policy makers, the report describes the challenges of adding MAT to recovery residence programs and proposes strategies for expanding recovery housing overall and specifically housing programs that can support residents on MAT.
Payers & Providers
How to Pay for It – MAT in Community Health Centers
Source: California Health Care Foundation
A guide to strategies for paying for medication assisted treatment (MAT) for patients with opioid use disorder in community health centers. Part of the “how to pay for it” series from the California Health Care Foundation as part of the California Bridge program, this report describes strategies for how community health centers can receive reimbursement for
Payers & Providers
Evidence Brief: Benefits and Harms of Long-term Opioid Dose Reduction or Discontinuation in Patients with Chronic Pain – Supplementary Materials
Source: Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
The supplementary materials to support the systematic review of the evidence for long term outcomes of tapering opioid doses in patients on long term opioid therapy for chronic pain from the Veterans Affairs Evidence Synthesis Program (ESP). These materials include search strategies used in the systematic review, inclusion/exclusion criteria for studies reviewed, evidence tables, and quality assessment of studies included in the review.
Policymakers & Community Leaders
Payers & Providers
Patients & Caregivers
Project Nurture – A Center of Excellence Model that Integrates Maternity Care and Addiction Treatment
Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
A one page guide to Project Nurture, a Center of Excellence program that provides prenatal care, inpatient maternity care, and postpartum care for women with substance use disorder as well as pediatric care for their infants. The integrated delivery model includes physicians, certified alcohol and drug counselors and peer support specialists in the treatment team. The model has been adopted by multiple sites, some of which incorporate addiction treatment into a primary care clinic and some which incorporate maternity and pediatric care into an addiction treatment facility. Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
Payers & Providers
How to Pay for It – MAT for Hospitalized Patients
Source: California Health Care Foundation
A guide to strategies for paying for medication assisted treatment (MAT) for hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder. Part of the “how to pay for it” series from the California Health Care Foundation as part of the California Bridge program, this report describes strategies for how hospitals can receive reimbursement for
Payers & Providers
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Quality Planning Tool
Source: New Hampshire Health and Human Services Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services
A companion document to New Hampshire’s guidance on creating community-based medication assisted treatment (MAT) services for opioid use disorder, this quality planning tool guides staff through the steps necessary to develop and implement an MAT program.