Integrating behavioral health and community systems to enhance the access, provision, and quality of substance use disorder, opioid use disorder, and mental health services.
What's Happening
Micro-Mind Pivot Training: How To Transform Health In Recovery Using Nutrition, Session 7
22
Aug 2024
A 12-week series of dynamic micro-trainings, designed to teach anyone working in the healthcare, addiction, and recovery fields how to implement evidence-based strategies that can not only enhance your well-being but also provide tools to integrate into your patient/client...
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) in Criminal Justice Settings: Current Updates in Case Law
29
Aug 2024
This webinar will explore the legal obligations for providing comprehensive SUD treatment within jails and prisons. Jails and prisons are faced with the responsibility to ensure that their facility is not only compliant with legal mandates but that it...
Micro-Mind Pivot Training: How To Transform Health In Recovery Using Nutrition, Session 8
29
Aug 2024
A 12-week series of dynamic micro-trainings, designed to teach anyone working in the healthcare, addiction, and recovery fields how to implement evidence-based strategies that can not only enhance your well-being but also provide tools to integrate into your patient/client...
Micro-Mind Pivot Training: How To Transform Health In Recovery Using Nutrition, Session 9
05
Sep 2024
A 12-week series of dynamic micro-trainings, designed to teach anyone working in the healthcare, addiction, and recovery fields how to implement evidence-based strategies that can not only enhance your well-being but also provide tools to integrate into your patient/client...
Need to Know
Prevention
“The National Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Laboratory (Policy Lab) leads the equitable coordination, analysis, development, and implementation of national policy to promote mental health, prevent substance misuse and addiction, provide treatment and support recovery.”
https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/who-we-are/offices-centers/nmhsupl
Harm Reduction
“Harm reduction is critical to keeping people who use drugs alive and as healthy as possible, and is a key pillar in the multi-faceted Health and Human Services’ Overdose Prevention Strategy.”
Treatment
“The use of medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.”
https://www.samhsa.gov/medications-substance-use-disorders
Recovery
“Recovery signals a dramatic shift in the expectation for positive outcomes for individuals who experience mental and substance use conditions or the co-occurring of the two.”