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USA. State Toolkit to End the Nation’s Drug Overdose Epidemic: Leading-Edge Actions and Strategies to Remove Barriers to Evidence-based Patient Care

USA. State Toolkit to End the Nation’s Drug Overdose Epidemic: Leading-Edge Actions and Strategies to Remove Barriers to Evidence-based Patient Care

The 2022 AMA-Manatt Toolkit builds on the 2020 roadmap by providing actionable resources that states can use to take specific actions in six policy areas: 

  • Increase access to evidence- based treatments to help patients with a substance use disorder (SUD). 
  • Ensure access to addiction medicine, psychiatry, and other trained physicians. 
  • Enforce mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) parity laws. 
  • Improve access to multidisciplinary, multimodal care for patients with pain. 
  • Expand harm reduction efforts to reduce death and disease. 
  • Improve monitoring and evaluation. 

(AMA – American Medical Association und Manatt Health , USA, Januar 2022)

https://end-overdose-epidemic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/AMA-Manatt-Health-Toolkit-Resources-January-2022_f_FOR-WEB-FINAL.pdf