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California Health Care Foundation » Substance Use Disorder
2M ago
Luis’s last binge started in late August. On the 13th straight day of heavy drinking, he was feeling “really, really bad, like I was gonna pass out.” He walked into his regular liquor store in Santa Cruz to buy more booze. “The people know me,” he said. “The state I was in, they told me […]
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California Health Care Foundation » Substance Use Disorder
5M ago
In California, the publicly funded substance use disorder treatment system sits outside both the specialty mental health and mild-to-moderate mental health services systems, resulting in inconsistent and fragmented care. Researchers at Health Management Associates (HMA), a national health care consulting firm, conducted a landscape analysis of California’s public substance use disorder (SUD) system with support […]
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California Health Care Foundation » Substance Use Disorder
6M ago
As the health care system expands the focus on the whole patient across delivery settings, promotores have been laying the foundation of patient-centered care for years in Latino/x communities across the state. Promotores are community health workers who connect Latinos/x with medical, social, and economic resources. Over the years, promotores — who are usually Spanish-speaking […]
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California Health Care Foundation » Substance Use Disorder
8M ago
Quinn Coburn is a longtime meth user. The Grass Valley, California, man is now getting sober in a new state program that pays amphetamine users to stay off drugs. “It saved me,” Coburn says. Photo: Angela Hart / KFF Health News
GRASS VALLEY — Here in the rugged foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada, the streets aren’t littered with needles and dealers aren’t hustling drugs on the corner.
But meth is almost as easy to come by as a hazy IPA or locally grown weed.
Quinn Coburn knows the lifestyle well. He has used meth most of his adult life, and has done five stints in jail for dealing marijua ..read more
California Health Care Foundation » Substance Use Disorder
9M ago
Although fentanyl and methamphetamine overdoses and deaths dominate headlines, alcohol leads to more deaths than other any single drug. People who are Latinx also are affected by alcohol use disorder, yet their access to treatment is compounded by the intersections of immigration, language, access to care, and a lack of linguistically trained health care providers across all disciplines, including in treatment for substance use disorder.
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Promotor Program for Education in Drugs and Alcohol for Latine was developed to test a way to help address the provider shortage by focus ..read more
California Health Care Foundation » Substance Use Disorder
10M ago
CalAIM (California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal) enables managed care plans to offer 14 Community Supports, services not traditionally covered by Medi-Cal that address health-related social needs. Some of these services, like housing navigation and medically tailored meals, have been readily adopted by participating health plans since the launch of Community Supports in 2022, while others have gotten off to a slower start. This fact sheet profiles one of these services with relatively low adoption — sobering centers.
Sobering centers provide a safe, alternative destination for those ..read more
California Health Care Foundation » Substance Use Disorder
1y ago
For many Californians living with serious mental illness or substance use disorders, accessing treatment beds and housing with supportive services is critical. It can also be very challenging. Gaps in resources can prevent people from transitioning to less restrictive, community-based settings once they are ready to be discharged from more intensive treatment facilities. Conversely, housing that lacks robust supportive services can undermine stability and recovery for people with serious behavioral health conditions.
To address these gaps, California has invested significant funding to expand ..read more
California Health Care Foundation » Substance Use Disorder
1y ago
At the Clubhouse of Westside Community Services in San Francisco, members LaMonte, left, and Ayana talk about their shared interest in video and filmmaking. Photo: Kori Suzuki
In a spacious sunlit room on a midsummer day, 11 people are gathered at San Francisco’s Westside Community Services, one of the nation’s oldest community mental health providers. Everyone is watching staff member Marcellus Ducreay demonstrate the preparation of his cherished black bean salad recipe.
But this gathering is about much more than a delicious meal. It’s one of many weekly activities for Westside clients who ar ..read more
California Health Care Foundation » Substance Use Disorder
1y ago
Stacey Berardino, interim director of forensics at the Orange County Health Care Agency, speaks to community members about CARE Court. Photo: Lauren Justice for CalMatters
Under the low hum of cold fluorescent lights in a nondescript office park in Orange County, dozens of Californians gathered to find out if they could get help for their loved ones under the state’s new CARE Court system.
Unless that loved one has a medical diagnosis specific to schizophrenia or some other psychotic disorders, the answer was probably not.
The mid-August meeting was one of a series held by a mental health advo ..read more
California Health Care Foundation » Substance Use Disorder
1y ago
Established in the early 1990s, street medicine is the provision of health care directly to people who are unsheltered, in their own environment, and has evolved from a fringe movement of health care providers to an organized area of medicine, with programs that span the globe.
With the largest concentration of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the nation, California is well positioned to scale the street medicine model to reach more people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The California Street Medicine Landscape Survey and Report is the first to examine and report on the c ..read more