Policy

Prescription drug information sharing strategies are an important part of combating the national epidemic of prescription abuse and drug overdose deaths. The value to prescribers and dispensers of sharing prescription data across state lines and integrating prescription data access with electronic health record systems is well established. RxCheck provides states the ability to easily participate in the growing movement of nationwide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) data sharing and integration. RxCheck was developed with support from the U.S.

The meeting was to bring together workers' compensation and public health organizations to discuss specific ways to use workers' compensation data (and other sources such as prescription drug monitoring programs) to address research gaps related to opioid use/misuse and workplace exposures.

COAP Webinar Series: New Resources for Behavioral Health & Justice Professionals to Help Individuals with Substance Use Disorders Build Recovery Capital: Health Technologies

COAP Webinar Series: New Resources for Behavioral Health & Justice Professionals to Help Individuals with Substance Use Disorders Build Recovery Capital: Health Technologies

he Department of Justice (DOJ, Department) is committed to improving the nation’s public safety and response to crime victims; its Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) plays a critical role in changing policies and practices that promote justice and healing for all victims of crime. In 2018, the Department invested more than $30 million in communities across the country to establish and expand services to children and youth who are victimized as a result of the opioid crisis.

Prescription drug information sharing strategies are an important part of combatting the national epidemic of prescription abuse and drug overdose deaths. The value to prescribers and dispensers of sharing prescription data across state lines and integrating prescription data access with electronic health record systems is well established. RxCheck provides states the ability to easily participate in the growing movement of nationwide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) data sharing and integration. RxCheck was developed with support from the U.S.

The meeting will convene approximately 25 jail practitioners and stakeholders to share feedback on 1) a draft publication on Non-Clinical Guidelines for Managed Withdrawal in Jail Settings and 2) additional products and resources that could be developed to help jails effectively provide treatment to individuals with opioid use disorders.

This meeting will be a structured, three-day site visit for 5 teams to visit Erie County, New York, to observe various aspects of Erie County’s comprehensive and multidisciplinary opioid response and have opportunities to interact with the leaders of these initiatives, spend time together as a team to support local planning, and engage in peer networking and information exchange with teams from the other selected sites.

During the listening session, we will discuss common challenges to facilitating and sustaining multi-stakeholder partnerships; systems collaborations and promising practices; innovative programs that may be ripe for replication and evaluation; priority resource needs and prospective partners; issues and unknowns of program implementation and impact; available program data; and other topics related law enforcement and first responder diversion programs.

During the listening session, we will discuss common challenges to facilitating and sustaining multi-stakeholder partnerships; systems collaborations and promising practices; innovative programs that may be ripe for replication and evaluation; priority resource needs and prospective partners; issues and unknowns of program implementation and impact; available program data; and other topics related law enforcement and first responder diversion programs.