ArticleDrug and alcohol dependence2020
Health economic design for cost, cost-effectiveness and simulation analyses in the HEALing Communities Study.
Article in Drug and alcohol dependence, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Addressing unmet need for substance use disorder treatment among youth in the legal system (YLS): Costs of structured implementation interventions with juvenile justice agencies in seven states.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Trial
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- Perceived versus actual HIV risk among PrEP indicated persons with criminal legal involvement.AIDS care · 2024Article
- Community-led approaches to making naloxone available in public settings: Implementation experiences in the HEALing communities study.The International journal on drug policy · 2024Article
- Informing evidence-based medicine for opioid use disorder using pharmacoeconomic studies.Expert review of pharmacoeconomics & outcomes research · 2024Review
- Cost of start-up activities to implement a community-level opioid overdose reduction intervention in the HEALing Communities Study.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2024Article
- Marginal modeling in community randomized trials with rare events: Utilization of the negative binomial regression model.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2022Article
- Modifications to the HEALing Communities Study in response to COVID-19 related disruptions.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- The HEALing (Helping to End Addiction Long-termDrug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- Model and approach for assessing implementation context and fidelity in the HEALing Communities Study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- Introduction to the special issue on the HEALing Communities Study.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- Establishing a Protocol for Determining the Costs of an Integrated Set of Evidence-based Practices Aimed at Reducing Opioid Overdose Deaths.Journal of addiction medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe HEALing Communities Study (HCS) is designed to implement and evaluate the Communities That HEAL (CTH) intervention, a conceptually driven framework to assist communities in selecting and adopting evidence-based practices to reduce opioid overdose deaths. The goal of the HCS is to produce generalizable information for policy makers and community stakeholders seeking to implement CTH or a similar community intervention. To support this objective, one aim of the HCS is a health economics study (HES), the results of which will inform decisions around fiscal feasibility and sustainability relevant to other community settings.
methodsThe HES is integrated into the HCS design: an unblinded, multisite, parallel arm, cluster randomized, wait list-controlled trial of the CTH intervention implemented in 67 communities in four U.S. states: Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio. The objectives of the HES are to estimate the economic costs to communities of implementing and sustaining CTH; estimate broader societal costs associated with CTH; estimate the cost-effectiveness of CTH for overdose deaths avoided; and use simulation modeling to evaluate the short- and long-term health and economic impact of CTH, including future overdose deaths avoided and quality-adjusted life years saved, and to develop a simulation policy tool for communities that seek to implement CTH or a similar community intervention. DISCUSSION: The HCS offers an unprecedented opportunity to conduct health economics research on solutions to the opioid crisis and to increase understanding of the impact and value of complex, community-level interventions.
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