This brief provides strategies for managing pushback to medication assisted treatment (MAT).

Use this locator to find Buprenorphine treatment.

This fact sheet discusses MAT as an evidence-based approach to treat opioid use disorders by combining the use of medications with behavioral therapy.

This brief provides an overview of the developing but nascent landscape of organizations offering telehealth MAT.

This paper in CHCF's How to Pay for It series describes how MAT is reimbursed in these settings, addressing professional services, as well as hospital and pharmacy costs associated with the medication.

Read through this brief to learn more about MAT in within the criminal justice system.

Resources listed in the sheet will allow you to learn more about MAT in Jails, as well as information regarding objections, position statements and more.

This video describes the importance of increasing access to MAT treatment and prevention services in jails.

These are sample Facebook posts and media campaigns related to fentanyl-related deaths, MAT, and overdose prevention strategies.

The toolkit offers high-level strategies for integrating The ASAM Criteria into a state’s approach to SUD services, as well as potential pathways that states can pursue, implementation vehicles, state examples, and model legislative, regulatory, and contractual language from which states can draw.

Health plans can influence the behavior of providers and patients, prevent overprescribing, ensure appropriate treatment is available — and save lives. Use this four part guide to change the way in which the epidemic is impacting your community.

MAT has been proven to save lives, improve quality of life, and lower medical costs, but remains inaccessible to almost 90% of the people it could help. This paper outlines concrete strategies that public and private plans can implement in their efforts to ensure that their members have access to MAT when and where they need it.

Historically, it has not been the responsibility of the sheriff s and jail administrators to be primary providers of substance use disorder treatments. But with thousands of Americans dying every week from drug overdoses and those recently released from jail among the most defenseless, the situation has changed - sheriffs have taken on the challenge.

This guide focuses on using medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in jails and prisons, and during the reentry process when justice-involved persons return to the community. It provides an overview of policies and evidence-based practices that reduce the risk of overdose and relapse.

Guidance from the federal and state government about the delivery of and payment for remote services (e.g., telehealth), links to virtual recovery supports for patients with substance use disorder, approaches to team care and self-care, and links to key content from other programs.