Summary of Mid-Term Action Items (1 year to 3 years) Prevention Intervention Treatment Recovery schools to identify at-risk youth for and intervention techniques Require DPH to advance behavioral health issues standards of care by Have state universities develop establishing industry substance use prevention benchmarks curricula for schools Support substance use Add new prevention curricula in schools treatment Mandate pain management, beds safe prescribing and addiction Create a consistent public training for all prescribers behavioral health policy through licensing reforms Partner with federal Improve the PMP to ensure government regarding data compatibility with other Pilot providing patients with graduate medical education states access to an emergent/urgent Fund patient Require manufacturers and addiction assessment by a Develop training on neonatal and case managers pharmacies to dispose of trained clinician and direct abstinence syndrome and Leverage unused prescription medication referral to the appropriate level addiction for DCF staff coalitions to address of care Require prescribers to Improve affordability of Ensure all infants with discuss opioid side effects at Increase points of entry to Naloxone referred to early point of prescription treatment Increase access to beds for by time of hospital partial refills across all section 35 patients Ensure section 35 patients Increase drug payers receive a continuum of care Implement electronic specialty court capacity Eliminate prescription refills by prescribing for opioids Enhance provider accountability Expand peer/family mail for schedule II medications by requiring treatment Increase screening for substance Partner with businesses the curriculum for programs to report on outcomes use at all points of contact in the remove employment teachers as state universities to medical system Reform purchasing of substance that recovering include training on screening use disorder treatment services Increase the use of screenings in experience 37
Summary of Mid-Term Action Items (1 year to 3 years) Prevention Intervention Treatment Recovery Support substance use prevention curricula in schools Mandate pain management, safe prescribing and addiction training for all prescribers Partner with federal government regarding graduate medical education Require manufacturers and pharmacies to dispose of unused prescription medication Require prescribers to discuss opioid side effects at point of prescription partial refills across all payers Eliminate prescription refills by mail for schedule II medications the curriculum for teachers as state universities to include training on screening and intervention techniques Have state universities develop substance use prevention curricula for schools Improve the PMP to ensure data compatibility with other states Develop training on neonatal abstinence syndrome and addiction for DCF staff Improve affordability of Naloxone Increase access to beds for section 35 patients Implement electronic prescribing for opioids Increase screening for substance use at all points of contact in the medical system Increase the use of screenings in schools to identify at-risk youth for behavioral health issues Create a consistent public behavioral health policy through licensing reforms Pilot providing patients with access to an emergent/urgent addiction assessment by a trained clinician and direct referral to the appropriate level of care Increase points of entry to treatment Ensure section 35 patients receive a continuum of care Enhance provider accountability by requiring treatment programs to report on outcomes Reform purchasing of substance use disorder treatment services Require DPH to advance standards of care by establishing industry benchmarks Add new treatment beds Fund patient and case managers Leverage coalitions to address Ensure all infants with referred to early by time of hospital Increase drug specialty court capacity Expand peer/family Partner with businesses remove employment that recovering experience 37
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