Opioid Recovery Fund Uses

1. Expand training for first responders, schools, community support groups, and families.
2. Increase distribution to individuals who are uninsured or whose insurance does not cover the needed service.

1. Increase distribution of MAT to individuals who are uninsured or whose insurance does not cover the needed service.
2. Provide education to school-based and youth-focused programs that discourage or prevent misuse.
3. Provide MAT education and awareness training to health care providers, EMTs, law enforcement, and other first responders.
4. Provide treatment and recovery support services, such as: residential and inpatient treatment, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient therapy or counseling, and recovery housing that allows or integrates medication with other support services.

1. Expand Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) services to non-Medicaid eligible or uninsured pregnant women.
2. Expand comprehensive evidence-based treatment and recovery services, including MAT, for women with co-occurring Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and other Substance Use Disorder (SUD)/Mental Health disorders for uninsured individuals for up to 12 months postpartum.
3. Provide comprehensive wrap-around services to individuals with OUD, including housing, transportation, job placement/training, and childcare

1. Expand comprehensive evidence-based and recovery support for NAS babies.
2. Expand services for a better continuum of care with infant-need dyad.
3. Expand long-term treatment and services for medical monitoring of NAS babies and their families.

1. Expand services, such as navigators and on-call teams to begin MAT in hospital emergency departments.
2. Expand warm hand-off services to transition to recovery services.
3. Broaden the scope of recovery services to include co-occurring SUD or mental health conditions.
4. Provide comprehensive wrap-around services to individuals in recovery, including housing, transportation, job placement/training, and childcare.
5. Hire additional social workers or other behavioral health workers to facilitate the expansions of warm handoff programs and recovery services.

1. Provide evidence-based treatment and recovery support, including MAT for persons with OUD and co-occurring SUD/MH disorders within and transitioning out of the criminal justice system.
2. Increase funding for jails to provide treatment to inmates with OUD.

1. Funding for media campaigns to prevent opioid use (similar to the FDA’s “Real Cost” campaign to prevent youth from misusing tobacco).
2. Funding for evidence-based prevention programs in schools.
3. Funding for medical provider education and outreach regarding best prescribing practices for opioids consistent with the 2016 CDC guidelines, including providers at hospitals (academic detailing).
4. Funding for community drug disposal programs.
5. Funding and training for first responders to participate in pre-arrest diversion programs, post-overdose response teams, or similar strategies that connect at-risk individuals to behavioral health services and supports.

1. Provide comprehensive syringe services programs with more wrap-around services, including linkage to OUD treatment, access to sterile syringes, and linkage to care and treatment of infectious diseases.

Analyzing the effectiveness of the Abatement Strategies within the State.