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Your First ORN Impact Bulletin

Welcome to the first Opioid Response Network newsletter, the ORN Impact Bulletin for the STR-TA grant initiative. As we begin this second year of the grant initiative, we’re planning to share updates bi-weekly to recognize the transformative work happening across the country. But we need your help! Contact us with your news and updates and we’ll get the word out. You can reach out to jane@aaap.org and nic@aaap.org with your ideas.

With the many challenges facing communities around the opioid crisis, Texas took charge and created the " Texas ORN Grand Rounds" to help providers through the use of evidence-based practices address their local needs around the prevention, treatment and recovery of opioid use disorders. 

Every two weeks, the SAMHSA-funded

STR-TA grant supports the Opioid Response Network (ORN) to convene an online forum for Texas clinicians, many who work at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and are often located in rural underserved areas. These bi-weekly, one-hour forums, are structured as an online grand rounds for clinicians, focusing on topics they encounter in preventing and treating opioid use disorders (OUD), providing valuable insights and information targeting their local needs. Participants can call in to a conference call or link through webinar video platform.

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 We are happy to welcome PAARI! ORN's newest partner works with 460 law enforcement agen cies in 32 states helping to prevent overdoses and create non-arrest pathways to treatment and recovery. Today, PAARI is designing a program to establish and enhance referrals to treatment.



From the AMA: California Attorney General Urges Health Plans to Stop Using Prior Authorization for MAT

 

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is urging all health insurance companies in the state to stop using prior authorization for medication-assisted treatment (MAT). The American Medical Association and California Medical Association strongly support this effort to help end the nation’s opioid epidemic. Read AG Becerra’s letter to payers and a statement from AMA/CMA.

 

Did you know? SAMHSA’s Criminal Justice Virtual Symposium recording is now available

Last December SAMHSA partnered with SAMHSA’s GAINS Center to host a virtual symposium featuring national experts, local innovative programs, and readily accessible federal resources in order to heighten the focus on the intersection of behavioral health and criminal and juvenile justice. The archive of this symposium is now available for on-demand viewing.

 

New AATOD Policy Paper Grapples with the Challenges of Opioid Use Disorder

 

Access the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence's paper titled Using Medication Assisted Treatment to Treat Opioid Use Disorder: Learning from Past Experience to Guide Policy.

 

Original Investigation: Association Between Long-term Opioid Use in Family Members and Persistent Opioid Use After Surgery Among Adolescents and Young Adults

 

JAMA's investigation asks "Is long-term opioid use among family members associated with persistent opioid use among opioid-naive adolescents and young adults undergoing surgical and dental procedures?"

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Funding for this initiative was made possible (in part) by grant no. 6H79TI080816 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in written conference materials of publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

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