This issue brief from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) presents recent data on prevalence of opioid use disorder and death rates in the Black/African American population, contextual factors and challenges to prevention and treatment, innovative outreach and engagement strategies to connect people to evidence-based treatment, and the importance of community voice....
For the field of complex care to show its value in improving outcomes and to evaluate programs’ delivery and impact, there is a need to identify and standardize measures that are used for evaluation and quality improvement. One of the recommendations of the Blueprint for Complex Care was to develop standard quality measures for complex...