{"title":"Early response to H.R. 1: SUD field united in ways to continue services","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34579","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It all happened just before the 4th of July, as Congress passed by the narrowest of margins the Trump tax bill which slashes Medicaid, among other things.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 27","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144598279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CODAC attracts numerous partners to one-stop health service site","authors":"Gary Enos","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34580","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A simple but empowering four-word question to patients will guide the services to be delivered at CODAC Inc.'s new integrated health center in Rhode Island: “What do you need?”</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 27","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144598342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Recovery Café","authors":"John de Miranda","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34574","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scaling innovation in the alcohol and drug services world does not come quickly. Cases in point: motivational practice, harm reduction, recovery community centers, Narcan distribution, etc.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medicaid work requirements and patients with SUD","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34575","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Imposing Medicaid work requirements for adults in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expansion group would reduce federal Medicaid spending and increase the number of people without health insurance. This is what the House of Representatives sent to the Senate in the reconciliation “big beautiful” bill supported by President Trump. On June 16, the Senate Finance Committee proposed changes to the work requirement provisions, but this may change, according to KFF, which has been covering the bill closely.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Case You Haven't Heard…","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34578","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The city council of the Biloxi Mississippi OTP run by New Seasons adopted a resolution last week saying the program is in compliance with its conditional use permit. The usual stigma had prevented it from opening, despite the needs of citizens. There was discussion of a fence. New Season will meet with the council to discuss safety measures. The approval was by a 3-to-2 vote.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advocates fear implications of retreat on parity enforcement","authors":"Gary Enos","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34572","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The imperiled future of Medicaid has largely occupied the attention of those tracking federal policy moves affecting substance use treatment in recent weeks, but advocates also are keeping a close eye on developments with the federal parity law. The Trump administration's indication last month that it will not enforce the provisions of the final rule on parity that took effect last fall has intensified concern that progress in holding insurers accountable for providing equitable substance use coverage will be lost.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 26","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming Up…","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34577","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The <b>National Prevention Network (NPN) Conference</b> will be held <b>August 11-13</b> in Washington, DC. For more information, go to https://npnconference.org/</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advocacy!","authors":"Robert Kent","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34576","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many addiction advocates assume that the federal medicaid, and addiction services funding cuts, have happened instead of acknowledging the fact that they are still being debated.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ASAM urges White House to remove barriers to SUD treatment","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34573","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) has urged the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to remove barriers to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. Not surprisingly, ASAM specifically promotes office-based methadone prescribing.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 26","pages":"3-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OTP initiation, engagement, and retention in New York","authors":"Alison Knopf","doi":"10.1002/adaw.34571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adaw.34571","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Are fewer people entering methadone treatment because more patients are being retained longer? Are there differences between New York City and the rest of the state? Do take-home doses affect retention? Ashly Jordan Ph.D., director of research and program evaluation for the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS) spent more than 5 years working on answers to these questions, and presented her findings, which are expected to be published, at the annual COMPA meeting held at Zucker hospital earlier this month. See <i>ADAW</i> June 23 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adaw.34563 for a report on the meeting in general.</p>","PeriodicalId":100073,"journal":{"name":"Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly","volume":"37 26","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144503256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}