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Improving Health Care Quality

Medicaid’s Role in Mental Health and Substance Use Care

Explainer / May 07, 2025

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Improving Health Care Quality

Expanding Health Insurance for Formerly Incarcerated People

Blog / Jan 29, 2025

Hands exchange package of syringes

Improving Health Care Quality

U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — Trend-Tracking and Harm-Reduction Policies Could Help

Blog / Jan 09, 2025

Improving Health Care Quality

Community-Driven Harm Reduction Could Be Key to Tackling U.S. Overdose Deaths

Blog / Oct 01, 2024

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Improving Health Care Quality

U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — How Harm-Reduction Programs Could Help

Blog / Jun 22, 2023

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Achieving Universal Coverage

States Have New Options to Improve the Health of People Leaving Jails and Prisons

Blog / Apr 25, 2023

two hands hold fentanyl test strip over a table of other testing items

Improving Health Care Quality

Overdose Deaths Declined but Remained Near Record Levels During the First Nine Months of 2022 as States Cope with Synthetic Opioids

Blog / Mar 13, 2023

Allie Hunter, cofounder and president of Addiction Response Resources, in Roxbury, Mass., on Sept. 14, 2021. Funds from opioid settlements can be used to support various strategies for addressing opioid use disorder, including efforts for prevention; programs that distribute naloxone, clean syringes, and other harm-reduction tools; and recovery programs. Photo: Jessica Rinaldi/Boston Globe via Getty Images

Improving Health Care Quality

Building Comprehensive Responses to the Opioid Crisis

Publication / Jan 31, 2023

Stephanie Robtoy, who suffered from addiction to prescription opioids for a decade, with her daughter in St. Albans, Vermont.

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Changing the Way Opioid Addiction Treatment Is Delivered Could Reduce Death and Suffering

Blog / Oct 24, 2022

Doctor talking to senior female patient in a home visit

Improving Health Care Quality

Expert Consensus on the Impact of COVID-Response Medicare Policies on Mental Health, Substance Use Care, and Costs

Issue Briefs / Oct 19, 2022

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Improving Health Care Quality

Integrating Primary Care and Behavioral Health to Address the Behavioral Health Crisis

Explainer / Sep 15, 2022

Inmate waits to be seen by a doctor

Improving Health Care Quality

States Push for Innovative Ways to Improve Health Outcomes for Justice-Involved Individuals

Blog / Sep 13, 2022

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