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November 22, 2011 | Program Result
West Virginia was one of 12 states participating in Advancing Recovery: State and Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Treatment. Four treatment providers expanded the use of medication-assisted treatment in helping people overcome addictions.
November 22, 2011 | Program Result
Alabama was one of 12 states participating in Advancing Recovery: State and Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Treatment. The state joined with three adolescent service providers to implement continuing care as their evidence-based practice.
November 22, 2011 | Program Result
The goal was to increase the use of two medications approved for the treatment of moderate-to-severe alcoholism, naltrexone and acamprosate.
November 4, 2011 | Program Result
Beginning in 2007, the Open Society Institute led a project to encourage the use of NQF quality standards for the treatment of substance abuse conditions.
December 1, 2011 | Program Result
Advancing Recovery: State and Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care supported 12 partnerships that used process improvement to implement evidence-based practices, such as medication-assisted treatment, and spread them statewide.
April 1, 2009 | Report
The Cross-Systems Financing Project helped states and stakeholders think more broadly, come together, and take advantage of a large variety of resources, ultimately allowing them to be more resourceful and get more from each dollar they spent.
April 18, 2011 | Program Result
The Program of Research to Integrate Substance Use Information into Mainstream Health Care (PRISM) advanced the evidence about the effects of alcohol and opioid use on the care physicians provided to patients with common chronic illnesses.
March 4, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University conducted three annual surveys of state agencies responsible for substance abuse programs, to gauge the extent of efforts to implement evidence-based practices for substance abuse treatment.
February 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
A number of states have considered laws or ballot initiatives intended to divert drug-abusing criminal offenders into treatment programs instead of prison or jail.
February 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Drug testing for substances of abuse has been claimed as a method to detect and deter drug use by adolescents. While some supporters report favorable results from their personal experiences with school-based drug testing, formal studies published to date have not as yet shown drug testing to be an effective deterrent, and research has identified risks associated with implementation.