Despite increased emphasis on behavioral health care, rural residents still face numerous challenges to accessing mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. But ever so slowly, the pandemic is boosting efforts to roll out improvements in the rural health landscape, especially for behavioral health.
Military spouses play a critical role in supporting service members. But few studies have assessed demographic factors associated with spouse experiences and perceived support. Abt used data from the Millennium Cohort Family Study to examine understudied subgroups of military spouses. Reserve/National Guard spouses reported less military stress than those with active duty partners, and spouses of officers reported less military stress than spouses of enlisted service members.
In Massachusetts, an Abt-led team provided training to and created a toolkit for 42 long-term care facilities to help them manage individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD), understand OUD as a chronic disease, recognize stigma, and gain knowledge of medication for OUD.
A new report from Abt explores how advocacy can help raise awareness about the importance and promise of youth screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT). The advocacy promotes the SBIRT framework as a way to foster prevention, enhance public understanding of substance use issues, and encourages policy change to minimize barriers to SBIRT adoption in a variety of settings.
Buprenorphine treatment delivered in HIV clinics is associated with decreased opioid use, increased antiretroviral use, higher quality of HIV care, and higher quality of life.
A new guide from the Dissemination of Evidence-Informed Interventions project applies a rigorous implementation science approach, helping programs interested in replicating these outcomes with guidance to help with the implementation processes.
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