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Policymakers and community leaders play an important role in addressing opioids in our communities. This page highlights the most recently added resources specifically targeting elected and appointed government officials and staff members, members of the law enforcement community and first responders, and employees and volunteers of organizations. These resources, identified with orange tiles, include policy roadmaps, implementation guides, toolkits, education materials, sample legislation and other materials that can help you design and implement effective programs to prevent and address the consequences of opioid crisis.

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Policymakers & Community Leaders

Model Act Providing for Warm Hand-off of Overdose Survivors to Treatment

Source: National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws

The National Alliance for Model State Drug Laws created this 2019 draft legislation for consideration by state legislatures. The model bill is intended to ensure warm hand-offs of overdose survivors to treatment.

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Payers & Providers

Principles to Guide Behavioral Health Practice in Pre-Arrest Diversion Programs

Source: The Police Treatment and Community Collaborative

The Police Treatment and Community Collaborative (PTACC) works to help law enforcement, treatment providers and their community partners develop alternative pathways to arrest and prosecution for individuals with substance use disorder and mental health conditions. This document defines the guiding principles for their work and briefly review the 5 pathways PTACC has designed for pre-arrest diversion programs.

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The Solution to the Opioid Crisis: The Naloxone Plus Pre-Arrest Diversion Framework

Source: J. Charlier

Presentation slides that provide an overview of strategies law enforcement and first responders can adopt in collaboration with community organizations to create pre-arrest diversion options for individuals with substance use disorder or mental health conditions.

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Evidence-Based Practices and Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder, Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services

This 2019 bulletin describes evidence-based practices for providing medication assisted treatment (MAT) for individuals with opioid use disorder and coverage of these treatment by Virginia’s Medicaid program.

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Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program Video

Source: Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program

A 12 minute video that explains the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program through a conversation with a client, police officer and case management. The LEAD program seeks to provide a pre-diversion program that treats addiction as a public health issue rather than seeking arrest and court involvement.

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Patients & Caregivers

Bring Them All: A Family-Centered Approach to Addiction Treatment

Source: Center of Excellence on Behavioral Health for Pregnant and Postpartum Women and Their Families, Addiction Technology and Transfer Center

This 15 minute video describes the family-centered approach to addiction treatment provided by SHIELDS for Families in Southern California. The model allows women and their children and partners to stay together during treatment in a residential setting with all services provided on site.

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State Variations in Medicaid Prescriptions for Opioid Use Disorder from 2011 to 2018

Source: L. Clemons-Cope et. al.

This 2019 report from the Urban Institute analyzed Medicaid State Drug Utilization Data to assess variation in buprenorphine prescriptions across state Medicaid programs between 2011 and 2018.

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Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project: Opioid Related Hospital Use

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a collaborative federal-state-industry data project that provides encounter-level health care data. This link is to the opioid related hospital use data dashboard, but other opioid related data reports can be found by searching the website. Funding Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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Police Treatment and Community Collaborative

Source: Police Treatment and Community Collaborative

Website for the Police Treatment and Community Collaborative (PTACC), an alliance of individuals working in law enforcement, behavioral health, community, advocacy, research and public policy whose mission is to enhance pre-arrest diversion pathways to treatment and social services.

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Patients & Caregivers

Opioids: Getting In Is Easier Than Getting Out (For Males)

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

This 30 second public service announcement is intended to attract attention to the website EasierInThanOut.org also known as Something Better.