A. PREVENTION PROGRAMS 1. Funding for media campaigns to prevent opioid use (similar to the FDA’s “Real Cost” campaign to prevent youth from misusing tobacco); 2. Funding for enhanced and/or expanded evidence-based prevention programs in schools; 3. Funding for enhanced and/or expanded medical provider education and outreach regarding best prescribing practices for opioids consistent with the 2016 CDC guidelines, including providers at hospitals (academic detailing); 4. Funding for community drug disposal programs; and 5. Funding for enhanced and/or expanded training for first responders to participate in pre-arrest diversion programs, post-overdose response teams, or similar strategies that connect at-risk individuals to behavioral health services and supports. B. EXPANSION OF WARM HAND-OFF PROGRAMS AND RECOVERY SERVICES 1. Expand services such as navigators and on-call teams to begin MAT in hospital emergency departments; 2. Support enhanced and/or expanded warm hand-off services to transition to recovery services; 3. Broaden scope of recovery services to include co-occurring SUD or mental health conditions; 4. Support enhanced and/or expanded comprehensive wrap-around services to individuals in recovery, including supportive housing, transportation, job placement/training, and childcare; and 5. Hire additional social workers or other behavioral health workers to facilitate expansions above. C. PREGNANT & POSTPARTUM WOMEN 1. Expand Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (“SBIRT”) services to non-Medicaid eligible or uninsured pregnant women; 2. Expand comprehensive evidence-based treatment and recovery services, including MAT, for women with co- occurring Opioid Use Disorder (“OUD”) and other Substance Use Disorder (“SUD”)/Mental Health disorders for uninsured individuals for up to 12 months postpartum; and 3. Support enhanced and/or expanded comprehensive wrap-around services to individuals with OUD, including supportive housing, transportation, job placement/training, and childcare.
