Substance Use Disorder
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration awarded $450 million in grants, including $250 million in emergency COVID-19 funding, to expand access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment services through certified community behavioral health clinics.
Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., reintroduced the Protecting Jessica Grubb鈥檚 Legacy Act, AHA-supported legislation that would modernize privacy regulations affecting the disclosure of substance use disorder treatment records to better enable health care providers to鈥
The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee held a hearing titled 鈥淐ombatting an Epidemic: Legislation to Help Patients with Substance Use Disorders.鈥
Nearly 72,600 Americans died from alcohol-related causes in 2017, double the number in 1999, according to a new study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today selected 10 states to receive funding under the Maternal Opioid Misuse Model to help coordinate and integrate health care and other services for pregnant and postpartum Medicaid enrollees with opioid use disorders beginning in 2021.
The Congressional Academic Medicine Caucus and the Association of American Medical Colleges today sponsored a Capitol Hill briefing to highlight the urgent nationwide need for more physicians to treat substance use disorders.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released guidance for state Medicaid agencies implementing Section 5052 of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act of 2018.
The National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic, of which the AHA is a sponsor, yesterday concluded a two-day meeting on progress to combat the opioid crisis.
The Drug Enforcement Administration last week launched a new online database for reporting 鈥渟uspicious orders鈥 of opioids and other controlled substances.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration today launched FindTreatment.gov, a website to help Americans locate substance use disorder treatment services.