Publications by authors named "Cole Fordham"
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- Rural and frontier communities are facing significant challenges with high rates of opioid use disorders (OUDs), prompting the establishment of the Rural Addiction Implementation Network (RAIN) in 2021 to promote evidence-based treatment and recovery services.
- RAIN created a practice-based research network across four rural hospitals/clinics, conducting 20 addiction-related prevention, treatment, and recovery (PTR) activities while navigating barriers like COVID-19, staff engagement, and stigma surrounding addiction.
- The initiative showcased the importance of trained facilitators and effective communication in overcoming implementation challenges, suggesting that RAIN's model could be replicated in other rural areas to combat addiction-related issues.
Hospitalizations represent important opportunities to engage individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) in treatment. For those who engage with SUD treatment in the hospital setting, tailored supports during post-discharge transitions to longitudinal care settings may improve care linkages, retention, and treatment outcomes. We updated a recent systematic review search on post-hospitalization SUD care transitions through a structured review of published literature from January 2020 through June 2023.
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