Below find on-the-ground perspectives or experiences in implementing addiction care models for people with substance use disorder. Case studies outline details that may be useful for organizations interested in implementing these or similar interventions.
Changes to Substance Use Disorder Confidentiality Regulations
Understand the implications of a recent federal rule designed to enhance care coordination for people with substance use disorder by allowing greater information-sharing among providers.
State Principles for Financing Substance Use Care Treatment and Support Services
Principles to help states build more comprehensive, sustainable, and equitable substance use disorder treatment, harm reduction, and recovery systems of care.
The Other 99: Using Harm Reduction Strategies to Drive Connections and Save Lives
Explores the evidence behind harm reduction strategies and shares practical steps for adopting this approach in health care settings.
Raising the Bar for Addiction Care: A Conversation with a Leading Addiction Medicine Specialist
Explores how to implement quality addiction care in general health care settings -- including primary, inpatient, and emergency care.
Meeting People Where They Are: Implementing Hospital-Based Substance Use Harm Reduction
A hospital successfully integrated a harm reduction services intervention for patients whose substance use goals did not include abstinence.
Recovery Coaching In and Out of Emergency Departments: an Overview of the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery’s (CCAR) Emergency Department Recovery Coaching Program
A hospital-based program showed that peer recovery coaching can be seamlessly integrated into the workflow of busy emergency departments to address the longer-term needs of people with substance use disorders.
Tools to Support Hospital-Based Addiction Care: Core Components, Values, and Activities of the Improving Addiction Care Team
Details the main elements of a hospital-based addiction care consultation team.
