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
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
A 2018 presentation on the Project Nurture model of providing integrated prenatal, maternity, postpartum, and pediatric care to women with substance use disorders and their infants. This presentation explains how the project came to be, describes characteristics of program participants, and provides results from a qualitative study of program participants.
Funding Source: Legacy Health Systems, Lifeworks NW, CODA, Inc., Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon DHS Child Welfare, Health Share of Oregon
This 2008 toolkit from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network explains the link between childhood trauma and adolescent substance use or mental health conditions and provides treatment recommendations for providers working with these patients.
Funding Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
This case study describes the Improving Addiction Care Team (IMPACT) model developed at Oregon Health & Science University to provide addiction medicine consultations during inpatient hospitalization and provide transitions to community based substance use disorder treatment upon discharge.
This 2017 article describes the steps taken by a group of physicians, substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers, and community representatives to establish an addiction care program for hospital inpatients at Oregon Health & Science University. The program includes Continue reading →
This 2007 report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration describes the family-centered treatment model for women with substance use disorders. The guide is particularly focused on women who have children and are parenting while they address their treatment needs. Continue reading →
Community leaders in Hancock County, Ohio, were convened by the county alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health services agency to agree on a common philosophy regarding treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) including the use of medication to treat OUD. The shared philosophy Continue reading →
This 2018 “Spotlight on Opioids” report from the US Surgeon General includes information about the prevalence of opioid use disorder in America, discusses the neurobiology of opioid addiction, describes the continuum of care for treatment and recovery, and provides a list of key federal resources. Continue reading →
This is the comprehensive opioid use disorder legislation passed by the 115th Congress and signed into law by the president in 2018. The bill is known as the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act, or the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act. Continue reading →