Iván D Montoya, Colleen Watson, Arnie Aldridge, Danielle Ryan, Sean M Murphy, Brenda Amuchi, Kathryn E McCollister, Bruce R Schackman, Joshua L Bush, Drew Speer, Kristin Harlow, Stephen Orme, Gary A Zarkin, Mathieu Castry, Eric E Seiber, Joshua A Barocas, Benjamin P Linas, Laura E Starbird
BACKGROUND: Communities That HEAL (CTH) is a novel, data-driven community-engaged intervention designed to reduce opioid overdose deaths by increasing community engagement, adoption of an integrated set of evidence-based practices, and delivering a communications campaign across healthcare, behavioral-health, criminal-legal, and other community-based settings. The implementation of such a complex initiative requires up-front investments of time and other expenditures (i.e., start-up costs)...
April 2, 2024: Addiction Science & Clinical Practice