Explores linkage facilitation for OUD at every touchpoint in the criminal legal system, using the Sequential Intercept Model to describe redirection to recovery-oriented care.

To support justice-involved individuals with substance use disorders in rural Nevada, the Office of the Attorney General has developed two outreach programs-Mobile Outreach Safety Teams (MOST) and Forensic Assessment Service Triage Teams (FASTT)-to intervene at various stages of the criminal justice process. Dr. Kerns, Dr. Snider, and DJ discuss how these teams operate, their impact at state and local levels, and strategies for overcoming implementation challenges.

Discusses hidden fentanyl use in rural Oregon and a new deflection program to divert people from misdemeanor charges into treatment.

Navigation is a model that has been used in both health and legal settings to reduce barriers to treatment and significantly improve outcomes for individuals with mental health or substance use diagnoses. This article provides an overview of successful court-based navigation programs.

Hundreds of diversion programs to address the unique needs of justice-involved adults with mental health and substance use disorders have proliferated across the US. This two-part series aims to assist jurisdictions in parsing the many options available regrading diversion models.

Communities all over the country are implementing law enforcement- and first responder-led diversion efforts to redirect individuals with SUD, mental health disorders, and co-occurring disorders away from jail and the criminal justice system and into the care of community-based treatment programs. This brief is one in a series highlighting projects that are part of the Rural Responses to the Opioid Epidemic (RROE) project.

Using the sequential intercept model (SIM) as a foundational framework toward the goal of improved outcomes for people with opioid use disorders.