Summary of Short-Term Action Items (6 months to 1 year) Prevention Intervention Treatment Recovery Increase educational offerings Improve the PMP Develop a central statewide • • • for prescribers and patients to Outreach to prenatal and database of available treatment • Promulgate chapter 257 rates promote safe prescriber postpartum providers to services for recovery homes effective practices increase screening for women Transfer section 35 civil • July 2015 Develop targeted educational with a substance use disorder commitment responsibility • Establish a single point of materials for schools Improve reporting of overdose from DOC to EOHHS • accountability for addiction Appoint members to the drug death data Increase the number of office • • recovery policy at EOHHS formulary commission Enhance data transparency, based opioid treatment • Suspend rather than Integrate information about the including EMS data programs • terminate MassHealth risks of opioid use and misuse Encourage naloxone to be co- Require DOI to issue bulletins • • during incarceration into school athletic programs prescribed with opioids on chapter 258 of the Acts of Certify alcohol and drug Conduct a public awareness Amend civil commitment 2014 prior to Oct. 2015 • • free housing campaign process recovery coaches in • Enforce the requirement Identify hot spots for targeted emergency and hot spots • that BSAS treatment intervention, using EMS, Bulk purchase opioid agonist • programs accept patients on hospital, and police data and naltrexone therapies for an opioid agonist therapy Promote the Good Samaritan correctional facilities • Strengthen connections law Add 100 new ATS/CSS beds • between law enforcement and Consider mandating testing for Open Recovery High School in • • community providers for in utero exposure to alcohol and Worcester individuals upon release drugs at every birth Review capacity in the treatment • Explore issuing certificates Encourage and support system for women/families • of recovery alternatives to arrest Analyze treatment spending in • Review and revise Expand availability of Naloxone correctional facilities • discharge/court notification Increase the number of • policies for section 35 36
Summary of Short-Term Action Items (6 months to 1 year) Prevention Intervention Treatment Recovery • Increase educational offerings • Improve the PMP • Develop a central statewide for prescribers and patients to • Outreach to prenatal and database of available treatment promote safe prescriber postpartum providers to services practices increase screening for women • Transfer section 35 civil • Develop targeted educational with a substance use disorder commitment responsibility materials for schools • Improve reporting of overdose from DOC to EOHHS • Appoint members to the drug death data • Increase the number of office formulary commission • Enhance data transparency, based opioid treatment • Integrate information about the including EMS data programs risks of opioid use and misuse • Encourage naloxone to be co- • Require DOI to issue bulletins into school athletic programs prescribed with opioids on chapter 258 of the Acts of • Conduct a public awareness • Amend civil commitment 2014 prior to Oct. 2015 campaign process • recovery coaches in • Identify hot spots for targeted emergency and hot spots intervention, using EMS, • Bulk purchase opioid agonist hospital, and police data and naltrexone therapies for • Promote the Good Samaritan correctional facilities law • Add 100 new ATS/CSS beds • Consider mandating testing for • Open Recovery High School in in utero exposure to alcohol and Worcester drugs at every birth • Review capacity in the treatment • Encourage and support system for women/families alternatives to arrest • Analyze treatment spending in • Expand availability of Naloxone correctional facilities • Increase the number of Promulgate chapter 257 rates for recovery homes effective July 2015 Establish a single point of accountability for addiction recovery policy at EOHHS Suspend rather than terminate MassHealth during incarceration Certify alcohol and drug free housing Enforce the requirement that BSAS treatment programs accept patients on an opioid agonist therapy Strengthen connections between law enforcement and community providers for individuals upon release Explore issuing certificates of recovery Review and revise discharge/court notification policies for section 35 36
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