This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs federal grant program (CFDA 93.273), will pilot test an Implementation Facilitation (IF) intervention to increase education and prescribing of medications for alcohol use disorder (MAUD) among patients with major mental illness (MMI) in three psychiatric treatment clinics. The $602,562 award, granted on September 25, 2024, will fund activities such as providing clinic-level education on MAUD in non-specialty care settings, training on standardized AUD screening and documentation, implementing an audit and feedback system for MAUD prescribing, facilitating weekly care coordination of MMI/AUD patients, and making MAUD educational materials available to patients. The project aims to improve access to evidence-based AUD treatments for MMI patients, many of whom are from marginalized racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.
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