There has been a five-fold increase in babies born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) from 2000 to 2012. These babies are a part of why HHS has made addressing the opioid epidemic a Department-wide priority. In collaboration with partners across federal government, SAMHSA is sharpening its focus on opioid-dependent pregnant women. And with a $1 […]
Opioid
Final rule expanding access to medication-assisted treatment
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) detailed several new actions that we are taking to address the country’s opioid crisis. One of these actions was publishing the final rule to increase the patient limit for practitioners prescribing buprenorphine. This rule aims to improve access to buprenorphine, which is prescribed along with […]
Follow-up care after opioid-related hospitalizations
There are more than 700,000 opioid-related hospitalizations every year. It is important that people with opioid-related hospitalizations receive care that will promote recovery and reduce the risk of opioid misuse, readmission to the hospital, or death. To find out more about the care patients received after an opioid-related hospitalization, researchers at SAMHSA and Truven Health […]
Winner Announced for Opioid Treatment Program Service Continuity Project II
The power is out, the roads are impassable, and many people have fled their homes: your community has been struck by a tornado. As you and your neighbors work to pick up the pieces after the storm passes, you realize that you are almost out of the medication that you use to manage your chronic […]
Improving Access to Treatment: Expanding reach of Buprenorphine
The opioid problem won’t wait. Seventy-eight people die every day in the United States from an opioid overdose. Nearly 2.2 million Americans struggle every day with an addiction to opioid pain medications or illegal opioids like heroin. Opioid addiction, also called opioid use disorder, is a complex disease associated with chronic drug use, high-risk behavior, […]
CDC’s Opioid Guidelines Advance Efforts to Prevent Opioid Misuse and Overdose
Across HHS, SAMHSA and our sister agencies are marshaling resources to support Secretary Burwell’s initiative to address the opioid crisis in this country. One of the key strategies in this Department-wide effort involves changing prescribing behavior. To reduce opioid misuse, we need to reduce the number of pills in people’s medicine cabinets. To do that, […]
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