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Expanding Access to Medication-assisted Treatment in Residential Addiction Treatment Programs

May 9th, 2018   |   2:00 - 3:30 pm ET


Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) – the combination of medications and behavioral therapy - is an effective opioid addiction treatment. Despite its effectiveness, evidence-based MAT for opioid use disorders (OUD) is unavailable to many patients in a context that meets their clinical needs
 
In this webinar, participants will hear from experts from state behavioral health agencies on how they are financing and expanding access to medication assisted treatment across settings. Discussion topics will include collaborations with Medicaid programs, use of discretionary and block grants, and changes in administrative policies.
 
This webinar is one of many activities that RTI is undertaking to combat the opioid epidemic and improve addiction treatment.

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Meet the Webinar Presenters

[NEED TO REPLACE]The Richmond Behavioral Health Authority promotes and provides quality behavioral health and developmental services that are accessible and cost-effective. Dr. Lindstrom is the CEO of the agency, which serves more than 11,000 individuals with behavioral health and developmental needs each year. Dr. May serves as the Director of Planning, Development, Research, Evaluation & Substance Use Disorders Services for the organization.

Dr. Rick Massatti is the State Opioid Treatment Authority at the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS). Over the last 16 years, he has worked on substance use and mental health research, policies, and programs. Currently he oversees the federally licensed opioid treatment programs (OTPs). He is coordinating the efforts to bring new opioid treatment programs into the state, update the OTP administrative code, and implement a workforce development strategy to increase physician interest in medication assisted treatment. Dr. Massatti also has been at the forefront of documenting the opioid epidemic in Ohio through his work with the Governor’s Cabinet Opiate Action Team, and has raised awareness about topics like naloxone used in overdose episodes and neonatal abstinence syndrome. He has also been an advocate of coordinated healthcare for drug-dependent pregnant women as part of the Maternal Opiate Medical Supports project.




 

Jaime Powers, Administrator
Lindy Keller, Administrator

New Hampshire Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services

Mark Stringer, Behavioral Health Medical Director
Nora Bock, Director of Adult Community Treatment Services

Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH)

Jesse Hinde, Research Economist 
Alex Cowell, Research Economist 

RTI International

Mark Stringer serves as Director of the Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH), where he is responsible for the overall operations of the department and its three divisions: Behavioral Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Administrative Services. He is a licensed professional counselor and nationally certified counselor with over thirty years of experience in the substance use disorder and mental health fields. After graduating magna cum laude from Westminster College, Mark served in the US Army as an officer with the 101st Airborne Division before moving into the behavioral health field. Since then he has directed adult and adolescent addiction treatment programs, a psychiatric hospital intake unit, an outpatient clinic, and an inpatient geriatric psychiatry unit. Along the way he earned a master’s degree in counseling from Truman University. In state government service at the Department of Mental Health, he was the behavioral health division director before becoming department director in July 2015. Mark currently serves as Policy Chair of the board of directors of the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD).
 

RTI International is an independent, nonprofit institute that provides research, development, and technical services to government and commercial clients worldwide. Jesse Hinde is a research economist in in the Behavioral Health Services, Policy, and Economics Research Program and has expertise in statistical programming, quantitative and qualitative analysis and economic evaluation. Alex Cowell is a research economist in areas of behavioral health and criminal and juvenile justice.

Ellen Augspurger, MAT SBIRT Project Director
Rick Massatti, PhD, MSW, MPH, LSW

Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

View the recording and download the presentation here.