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1 Introduction and Background
Pages 9-18

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... . These data reinforce the need for comprehensive approaches to prevent overdose, provide access to evidence-based treatment, and ensure retention in treatment and recovery protocols.
From page 10...
... . Data suggest a negative correlation between overdose death and increased treatment access, reduced prevalence and comorbidities, and better prescribing practices (with some important consequences, such as increased pain for pain patients)
From page 11...
... Title I Prevention and Education, Section 107: Improving Access to Overdose Treatment Program (OD Treatment Access) allows HHS to award grants to eligible entities to expand access to opioid overdose reversal drugs or devices.
From page 12...
... reauthorizes a grant program for nonresidential opioid addiction treatment of pregnant and postpartum women and their children and creates a pilot program for state substance abuse agencies to address identified gaps in the continuum of care. Other sections include expansion of veterans' treatment courts and substance use treatment programs, information about best practices for safe care of infants born with SUD or experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and the Government Accountability Organization report on neonatal abstinence syndrome.
From page 13...
... SAMHSA provided copies of the mandatory reporting tools for each of the four programs, discussed in more detail in Chapters 2 and 3 and available as supplementary material to this report. The committee requested information on work plans, evaluation plans, and progress reports from the principal investigator of each grant,5 at which 5 Public access file available via the National Academies at https://www.nationalacademies.
From page 14...
... Thus, any recommendations about outcomes and metrics in this report, and assessment of program effectiveness in subsequent reports, do not address the overall needs of a comprehensive approach to OUD. Where reasonable, however, the committee has made conclusions and recommendations that are focused on the scope of these individual grant programs, providing additional metrics and outcomes that would advance their overall goals.
From page 15...
... b individualized recovery support services (RSS) ; Communities of are domestic • Build connections between recovery networks, between RCOs, and with other Recovery (BCOR)
From page 16...
... Up to 3 years Through this program, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) seeks to reduce the misuse of alcohol and other drugs, increase engagement in treatment services, increase retention in the appropriate level and duration of services, and increase access to the use of medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
From page 17...
... g for prescribing and co-prescribing FDA-approved overdose reversal drugs; opioid • Next, use the SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkiti and other resources treatment 2018 Awarded: to train other prescribers in key community sectors (e.g., health care providers programs; 5 (up to and pharmacists) and individuals who support persons at high risk for practitioners $200,000 overdose; and dispensing each)


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