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Health Behaviors

Research Brief
Guidance for Organizations That Support the Behavioral Health of Post-9/11 Veterans
This brief highlights important treatment, provider, and system factors that organizations that support the behavioral health needs of veterans with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health disorders should consider.
Jul 22, 2020
Report
Improving Substance Use Care: Addressing Barriers to Expanding Integrated Treatment Options for Post-9/11 Veterans
This report provides guidance and recommendations to support the delivery of quality care for veterans with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health disorders.
Jul 22, 2020
Research Brief
Veterans with Both Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders Need Integrated Treatment
Co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders are common among post-9/11 veterans. But treatment programs typically specialize in one issue or the other. Integrated treatments are more effective and have become more available, but it's critical that veterans have access to facilities that are equipped to treat them.
Jul 22, 2020
Journal Article
Substance Use Disparities at the Intersection of Sexual Identity and Race/Ethnicity: Results from the 2015–2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Disparities were most pronounced among racial/ethnic minority LGB women, which may reflect their unique experiences of discrimination at the intersection of multiple minority identities. However, racial/ethnic minority gay and bisexual men were not at elevated risk relative to their White counterparts.
Jul 17, 2020
Journal Article
Research in Brief: Comprehensive Suicide Prevention in Law Enforcement
Any institution-from workplaces to schools to correctional settings to law enforcement agencies-seeking to prevent suicide must take a comprehensive approach. Science suggests that there are five components that define what such an approach looks like.
Jul 14, 2020
Blog
Online Shopping, Living in a Riskier World, Stress in Communities: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on Americans' online shopping habits during the pandemic, living in a riskier world, how stress builds in communities, and more.
Jul 10, 2020
Journal Article
The State of the Science in Opioid Policy Research
The rigor of study design varies notably across policy categories, highlighting the need for broader adoption of rigorous methods in opioid policy research.
Jul 7, 2020
Commentary
Learning to Live in a Riskier World
Even as the public discussion about COVID-19 risk becomes increasingly polarized, many Americans are slowly and quietly balancing the threat of infection against valued daily activities, and learning to live in a riskier world.
Jul 2, 2020
Journal Article
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among Pregnant Women Referred by Criminal Justice Agencies Before and After Medicaid Expansion: A Retrospective Study of Admissions to Treatment Centers in the United States
Pregnant women with OUD referred by criminal justice agencies between 1992 and 2017 were consistently less likely to receive evidence-based treatment than women referred through other sources.
Jun 30, 2020
Commentary
Revoking the 'License to Drink': Emerging Evidence on Mandatory Sobriety
After counties in South Dakota implemented a 24/7 sobriety program, repeat arrests for impaired driving decreased in the counties by an average of 12%. North Dakota implemented a similar program and also saw decreases in impaired driving. Can the same results be achieved outside of the Dakotas?
Jun 29, 2020
Journal Article
Variation in the Degree of Concentration of Prescription Opioid Utilization Using Different Measures
A small share of prescription opioid users account for a large percent of total prescription opioid use.
Jun 26, 2020
Journal Article
How Increasing Medical Access to Opioids Contributes to the Opioid Epidemic: Evidence from Medicare Part D
The national growth in opioid supply explains 75% of the national rise in opioid treatment admissions and the diversion component is a critical driver of the opioid epidemic.
Jun 26, 2020
Commentary
COVID-19 Reveals Need for More Research About Guns
Recent reports suggest that Americans reacted to the pandemic by purchasing guns and ammunition in massive numbers. What does this mean for public safety? And how can policymakers ensure that this doesn't result in more injuries or deaths?
Jun 18, 2020
Dissertation
Public Health and Safety Consequences of Liberalizing Drug Laws: Insights from Cannabis Legalization
Evaluates past policy changes surrounding national legalization of cannabis and identifies feasible policy responses for contemporary or anticipated issues.
Jun 15, 2020
Blog
A Message from Our President and CEO, America's Wealth Gap, Disinformation: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on doing more to address systemic inequalities and structural racism, paying the bills during COVID-19, America's growing wealth gap, and more.
Jun 5, 2020
Journal Article
Assessing the Burden of Nocturia in the Workplace: The Associations Between Nocturnal Voiding, Subjective Well-Being, Work Engagement and Productivity
Using large-scale international workplace survey data, this study assessed the burden of nocturia in the workplace by investigating associations between nocturia and subjective well-being, work engagement and productivity.
Jun 5, 2020
Journal Article
Consensus Guidelines and State Policies: The Gap Between Principle and Practice at the Intersection of Substance Use and Pregnancy
We review the change over time in state-level policy environments around substance use in pregnancy and contrast the policy response with the principles and guidance from professional societies and federal agencies.
Jun 3, 2020
Journal Article
Treating Patients With Opioid Use Disorder in Their Homes: An Emerging Treatment Model
Treating OUD in the home via telehealth is expanding under COVID, but it is not clear what will happen post pandemic.
May 29, 2020
Journal Article
Incidence and Treatment Costs of Severe Bacterial Infections Among People Who Inject Heroin: A Cohort Study in South London, England
A study examined the rates of hospitalisation or death related to severe bacteria infections among people who inject heroin in South London, England. The report compared these rates to the general population and calculated the cost of admissions.
May 19, 2020
Journal Article
Settling the Score: Maximizing the Public Health Impact of Opioid Litigation
This Article responds to skeptics of a potential global opioid settlement agreement by proposing terms that would further public health goals.
May 12, 2020

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Health Behaviors

Topic Synonyms:
Health Behaviour

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