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Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder in Mental Health Settings
This tool reviews how clinicians who work in mental health settings can provide pharmacotherapy treatment for an alcohol use disorder that co-occurs with a primary mental health condition.
Dec 13, 2019
Tool
User Guide for the Training in Psychotherapy (TIP) Tool 2.0
The Training in Psychotherapy (TIP) Tool assesses how well psychotherapy trainings for community-based providers include elements of trainings identified as potentially effective. This guide provides an update of the TIP Tool based on pilot testing.
Dec 11, 2019
Tool
Teaching Skills to Reduce DUI Recidivism
The RE-thinking Avenues for Change (REACH) program is a cognitive behavioral therapy protocol developed to prevent drinking and driving after a first-time driving under the influence (DUI) offense.
Nov 19, 2019
Report
Gender Differences in Response to Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment: A Systematic Review
If men and women respond differently to treatments for alcohol use disorder, this would be important to consider in treatment selection. The authors of this systematic review sought to synthesize evidence for gender differences in treatment effects.
Nov 6, 2019
Report
Improving U.S. Military Accession Medical Screening Systems
The project team outlined advantages and disadvantages of the two main systems for medically screening applicants to the U.S. armed forces and recommended a hybrid model as potentially more effective and efficient.
Oct 24, 2019
Journal Article
Urban Religious Congregations' Responses to Community Substance Use: An Exploratory Study of Four Cases
This paper explores the characteristics of congregation-based substance abuse disorder treatment programs in a diverse sample of urban religious congregations.
Oct 22, 2019
Journal Article
Randomized Clinical Trial Examining Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Individuals With a First-Time DUI Offense
The current study aims to elucidate the effectiveness of the services DUI programs provide compared to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to prevent impaired driving.
Sep 24, 2019
Journal Article
Access to Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment in Areas With High Rates of Opioid-Related Mortality: An Audit Study
In the six jurisdictions with the highest rate of opioid-related mortality in 2016, the most prominent barrier to accessing buprenorphine treatment was the difficulty of finding clinicians.
Sep 23, 2019
Report
How Law Enforcement Can Fight the Opioid Crisis
Law enforcement has a unique role in addressing the opioid crisis because it interacts with those affected by it on a day-to-day basis. Promising efforts include connecting people with opioid use disorder to treatment, collaborating to achieve community buy-in, and protecting officers on the front lines.
Sep 6, 2019
Journal Article
Business Cycles and Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment
The relationship between business cycles and health is theoretically complex. In a seminal paper, Ruhm (2000) outlined a series of economic mechanisms through which business cycles may influence health.
Aug 6, 2019
Research Brief
Federal Block Grants to States for Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Homelessness: Potential Improvements to Funding Formulas
RAND researchers analyzed the formulas for distributing funds to states under three block grants for services related to mental health, substance abuse, and homelessness (unchanged since 1992) to determine whether they should be modified.
Jun 19, 2019
Report
Review and Evaluation of the Substance Abuse, Mental Health, and Homelessness Grant Formulas
RAND researchers analyzed the formulas for distributing funds to states under three block grants for services related to mental health, substance abuse, and homelessness (unchanged since 1992) to determine whether they should be modified.
Jun 19, 2019
Report
Identifying Safety-Net Resources at Health Centers to Prevent Infectious Disease Transmission Resulting from the Opioid Epidemic
This study highlights factors that affect Community Health Centers' ability to reduce infectious disease transmission related to the opioid epidemic.
Jun 18, 2019
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Dissemination Study of Community-to-Clinic Navigation to Promote CRC Screening: Study Design and Implications
The purpose of this study is to extend the pilot study in a group-randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of tailored messaging delivered by Community Health Navigators to guide individuals from especially hard-to-reach, multicultural, and underinsured communities into primary care clinics for referral for CRC screening (Phase I) and to continue navigation after referral to track effects of the intervention on completion of CRC screening (Phase II).
Jun 11, 2019
Journal Article
Association Between State Laws Facilitating Pharmacy Distribution of Naloxone and Risk of Fatal Overdose
Although many states have passed some type of law affecting naloxone availability, only laws allowing direct dispensing by pharmacists appear to be useful. Communities in which access to naloxone is improved should prepare for increases in nonfatal overdoses and link these individuals to effective treatment.
May 22, 2019
Project
Evaluation of Drug and Alcohol
RAND Europe conducted an independent evaluation of the UK Department of Health's drug and alcohol recovery payment-by-results pilots to determine whether market forces can encourage the development of better recovery programs.
May 3, 2019
Journal Article
Evaluation of the Drugs and Alcohol Recovery Payment by Results Pilot Programme: Final Report
An evaluation of how the PbR approach can help to provide different schemes that support the recovery of individuals from drug and alcohol dependence and their successful re-integration into their communities.
Apr 11, 2019
Tool
Simulation of County Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Rates Tool
This web-based tool aims to inform policymakers about the rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome by county across eight states from 2009 to 2015. This analysis is displayed via maps and interactive charts.
Mar 15, 2019
Journal Article
Rates and Impact of Adherence to Recommended Care for Unhealthy Alcohol Use
The objectives of this study were to describe quality of care for unhealthy alcohol use among patients visiting primary care settings and to determine whether better quality of alcohol care was linked to reduced alcohol consumption 6 months later.
Mar 7, 2019
Journal Article
Initiation and Engagement as Mechanisms for Change Caused by Collaborative Care in Opioid and Alcohol Use Disorders
This research sheds light on how collaborative care (CC) may work to increase abstinence in a sample of primary care patients with opioid and alcohol use disorders (OAUD).
Mar 7, 2019

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Mary Avriette

Assistant Policy Researcher and Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School

M. Avriette is a Ph.D. student in the Research, Analysis, and Design stream at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. She is an active-duty veterinarian in the U.S. Army. Her research interests include national security, developing-nation economics, zoonoses…
Jennifer Hawes-Dawson

Senior Survey Director, RAND Survey Research Group

Jennifer Hawes-Dawson (she/her) is an adjunct senior survey director in the RAND Survey Research Group (SRG) with more than 40 years experience managing primary data collection projects. She is experienced with all modes of quantitative and qualitative data collection: mail, telephone,…

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