The Port of Newark, with the much feared New Jersey Turnpike in front.
The Nicholson Foundation, which seeks to improve New Jersey’s healthcare- delivery systems and reduce the costs of care for its underserved populations, has a program to reform pain care and reduce opiate addiction and in so doing strengthen overall primary care in the state’s safety-net system. Its key is integrating behavioral healthcare — mostly substance-abuse and mental-health treatment — with primary-care settings.
The authors of a Health Affairs article on this note: “With the explosion of the prescription opioid crisis in the past several years, and the concomitant awareness of the role of primary-care providers in inadvertently contributing to it, this integration work has become urgent and essential.”
To read the article, please hit this link.
