Advancing Evidence-Based Substance Use Disorder Treatment Policies
If you want to reform state laws to require detox facilities to include medications like buprenorphine and methadone in their treatments, you should start by changing the “hearts and minds” of those who oppose it, Rebekah Gee, MD, MPH, MHSPR, told the January 14, 2022 Penn LDI/CHERISH Virtual Conference at the University of Pennsylvania. Keynoting a gathering organized […]
Achieving Value in Substance Use Disorder Treatment: Paying for What Works (and Not Paying for What Doesn’t): Workshop Summary
More than 100 policymakers, practitioners, and researchers discussed and debated how payment policy can promote evidence-based, cost-effective substance use disorder treatment, in a recent workshop hosted by the Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV and HIV (CHERISH) and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of […]
CHERISH Investigators and Research Affiliates Support NIDA Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN)
On July 24 2019, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) announced twelve grants totaling approximately $155 million for the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) as part of the greater NIDA HEAL initiative. JCOIN will establish a network of 10 clinical research institutions, a Methodology and Advanced Analytics Resource Center (MAARC), and a Coordination and Translation Center (CTC) that […]
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