Rural Opioid and Direct Support Services (ROADSS) for Methadone Maintenance Treatment
This article discusses the Rural Opioid and Direct Support Services (ROADSS) program, and provides a toolkit including an implementation packet, staffing plan, sample job descriptions, and an onboarding checklist.
Applying Motivation-Phase Interventions to Treat Tobacco Use Among People with Opioid Use Disorder
This webinar presentation is on the importance of tobacco treatment for people with opioid use disorder. It discusses research on providing treatment for smokers who are not motivated or not ready to quit, and also explores barriers to quitting tobacco among those who live in rural communities.
Recommendations for Culturally Recentering Reinforcement-Based Substance Use Disorder Interventions in Collaboration with Rural Tribal Communities
This webinar presentation covers strategies providers may use to culturally adapt and implement contingency management among rural American Indian and Alaska Native communities, as a treatment approach offering incentives for healthy progress in people with substance use disorder (SUD).
Illicit Drug Supply: Fentanyl and Xylazine
This webinar presentation explores current information about fentanyl and xylazine including drug supply information, pharmacology, clinical effects, medical impacts, harm reduction, and treatment information. Considerations for rural populations are also discussed.
Three years of the COVID-19 Pandemic: What we’ve learned, and how it can make us better at treating rural patients with SUD
This presentation explores lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic as they relate to rural populations with substance use disorder (SUD), including discussion of the ways the pandemic affected barriers to SUD treatment and social coping strategies, as well as approaches toward addressing vaccine hesitance, and strategies for providing remote/virtual outreach to rural patients with SUD.
Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants as Buprenorphine Providers: Facilitators and Barriers
This webinar presentation describes the expansion of nurse practitioners and other advanced practice clinicians into opioid use disorder treatment, particularly in rural communities. It also explores barriers and facilitators regarding nurse practitioner engagement in buprenorphine treatment, including regulations, education, and broader social factors such as stigma. Specific considerations for advanced practice clinicians’ work with members of rural communities are discussed.
Expanding Harm Reduction Access in the US for Rural and Other Underserved Populations
This presentation describes community-based naloxone distribution methods, including mail-out harm reduction supplies, based on the work of Czarina Behrends, PhD, MPH. Specific considerations for reaching members of rural communities are discussed.
A Qualitative Analysis of US State Laws Regulating Incentives for Health Behavior
This presentation describes the results of a qualitative study examining state laws regulating incentives for health behavior. Such laws may have important implications for provision of contingency management for substance use disorder, including in rural areas.
Reaching People Where They’re At: Smoking Cessation Treatment Delivery at Your Door
This webinar presentation discusses novel ways to deliver evidence-based treatment for smoking cessation within and across rural areas. It focuses on 4 separate clinical trials of medication sampling, each demonstrating feasibility and efficacy of a simple yet novel treatment approach to reach a broad spectrum of smokers, including those who may not want to quit yet.
Evidence-Based Treatment of PTSD in Individuals with OUD, and Innovative Approaches for Increasing Access to Care in Rural Communities
This presentation discusses effective treatment approaches for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in individuals with co-occurring opioid use disorder (OUD). It also explores ways to increase access to evidence-based trauma treatment for members of rural communities.