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Apr 25, 2025
The RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute hosted a webinar to discuss innovations in veteran suicide prevention.
Tool
Apr 22, 2025
This guide describes the Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Team Addiction Consultation Service, a program that aims to enhance treatment initiation and ensure successful connections to follow-up care for people with opioid use disorder.
Research
Apr 16, 2025
In this report, the authors analyze current and emerging activities to prevent veteran suicide, introducing the RAND Suicide Prevention Activity Matrix, a framework that organizes current approaches and their evidence.
Research Summary
Apr 15, 2025
California launched a historic effort to improve health by screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences. Almost 45,000 individuals have been trained, and several million Medi-Cal beneficiaries have been screened, but continued investment is needed.
The authors identify clinics with different trajectories of screening for adverse childhood experiences and conduct qualitative interviews with a subset of these clinics to explore the factors related to beginning and sustaining screening efforts.
Press
Apr 7, 2025
Specialized hospital services that aid people with opioid use disorder regardless of why they are admitted can boost the number of patients who begin treatment with FDA-approved medication for opioid use disorder and increase the likelihood they remain engaged in that care once discharged.
This study examined the association between opioid treatment program geographic availability with dispensation of methadone, a medication for opioid use disorder, for Medicare beneficiaries with a recent diagnosis of opioid use disorder.
Project
The RAND Corporation is evaluating California's statewide prevention and early intervention programs (CalMHSA), which aim to reduce negative outcomes for people experiencing mental illness.
Mar 31, 2025
This article provides illustrative examples of successful implementation strategies used to address challenges faced by community mental health clinics and recommendations to increase MOUD uptake.
Mar 25, 2025
This facilitator guide is designed for clinicians who want to deliver eINSPIRE, a ten-week telehealth intervention of hourlong sessions, which provides support to those with loved ones receiving buprenorphine treatment for an opioid use disorder.
Mar 10, 2025
In 2024, we conducted an exploratory sequential mixed-methods study that coupled in-depth interviews with 22 app users and a nationally representative survey of 2002 adults. We explored experiences with and perceptions of alcohol reduction apps.
Commentary
Mar 5, 2025
Effectively combating the chronic disease epidemic in the United States necessitates prioritization and significant investment in addressing all the contributing factors—including lifestyle and environmental factors, low health literacy, ineffective approaches to preventative care, and poor health care access.
