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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop to examine family-focused interventions that have been used to address substance use disorders in adolescent primary health care settings. During this workshop, participants learned about existing state policy efforts to incorporate these interventions into state health care strategies. Speakers discussed barriers to implementation for these interventions, as well as examples of lessons learned from successful efforts to scale up such interventions.
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Adolescence is a crucial period of life for the prevention of substance use disorders. Research has shown that early intervention can significantly reduce rates of substance use disorder in adulthood. To learn more about effective family-focused interventions in primary care settings for preventing...
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a planning committee to plan and conduct a 2-day public workshop that will examine family-focused prevention interventions that have been used to address substance use disorders (SUDs) in primary health care settings. The workshop will emphasize interventions to prevent opioid use disorder (OUD) in adolescence. During this workshop, participants will also learn about existing state policy efforts to incorporate these interventions into statewide health care strategies. Speakers will discuss barriers to implementation for these interventions, as well as examples of lessons learned from successful efforts to scale up such interventions.
The planning committee will formulate the goals and objectives for this workshop, select and invite speakers, develop the agenda, and moderate the discussion. At the conclusion of the workshop, a proceedings of a workshop will be prepared in accordance with institutional guidelines.
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Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)
Staff
Natacha Blain
Lead
Sunia Young