Substance Use Disorder
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 “suspicious orders” 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.
AHA today voiced support for several proposed changes to the federal regulation governing the confidentiality of substance use disorder patients’ records that would reduce the burden and delay associated with accessing certain recovery services and add declared disasters to the list of exceptions.
The AHA recognizes that SAMHSA is statutorily constrained in making structural amendments to the regulations under 42 CFR Part 2; however, because the proposed rule would not change the basic framework of Part 2, which significantly impedes the robust sharing of patient information necessary for…
The Drug Enforcement Administration yesterday published a proposed rule implementing provisions of the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery Treatment for Patients and Communities Act that require the agency to limit production quotas for five opioid substances vulnerable…
In the AHA Stat Blog marking National Addiction Treatment Week, Raymond Waller, hospital administrator at Ascension Brighton Center for Recovery in Brighton, Mich., and 2020 chair of AHA’s Behavioral Health Council, urges readers to ask their members of Congress to cosponsor this AHA-supported…
The National Institutes of Health yesterday awarded $945 million in fiscal year 2019 funding under its Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative for research projects to improve treatments for chronic pain, curb opioid use disorder and overdose rates, and support long-term recovery from opioid…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week awarded 14 states and the District of Columbia planning grants totaling $48.5 million to increase access to evidence-based treatment and recovery services for Medicaid patients with substance use disorders.