Treatment – Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center

Arkansas 2024 State Opioid Response Grant

Rodney Wambeam — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:27:27 +0000

WYSAC is the evaluator of the 2024 State Opioid Response (SOR) program for the state of Arkansas. This 3-year program, sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), supports prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery services for opioid and other substance use disorders. Arkansas will seek to develop comprehensive strategies to reduce overdose deaths and improve care for opioid and stimulant misuse across the state.

Wyoming State Opioid Response Grant Evaluation and Quality Improvement Analysis

Matthew Wagner — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:25:46 +0000

WYSAC has been chosen to assess the implementation and outcomes of the 2024 State Opioid Response (SOR) Grant for the State of Wyoming. Included in this evaluation is a comprehensive analysis of past data related to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment and prevention programs.

Stimulant Use in Wyoming

Rodney Wambeam — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:00:45 +0000

The State of Wyoming expressed concerns that stimulant use, in particular amphetamine and methamphetamine use, was a potentially rising problem that communities and the state were having to address. WYSAC, as part of a contract with the Wyoming Department of Health, was tasked with gathering and reporting all available state-level data and information about this topic. The results from that data collection effort indicated that there was a gap in stimulant-related data. Specifically, consumption of illicit and licit stimulants remained low or was decreasing in recent years; yet, the consequences related to stimulant use were increasing.

Based on surveys of youth and adults, only small proportions of them reported having used stimulants in the past month, which has remained relatively stable over time. However, the number of admissions to treatment, methamphetamine-related arrests, and overdoses were rising. Ultimately, the report concludes that gathering more data about the risk factors related to stimulant use and misuse would bridge the knowledge gap between these divergent findings. It would also help policymakers and prevention professionals better target their support and interventions to address these concerns.

This report’s information is presented to allow the Wyoming government, community coalitions, and other stakeholders to choose and implement targeted strategies and solutions for prevention and treatment. To read the report in detail, see https://bit.ly/wystim. A condensed issue brief outlining the key findings of this report is found at https://bit.ly/short-wy-stim. For a one-page fact sheet highlighting key findings, go to https://bit.ly/wy-stim-fact.

This project is a part of the Wyoming State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW) supported by the Wyoming Department of Health, Public Health Division, with funds from the 2015 Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Sucess Grant by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

Telling the Story of Opioid Use in Wyoming Report

Rodney Wambeam — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:13:11 +0000

The purpose of this report is to document opioid-related data sources and indicators that currently exist with the aim of telling the story of prescription opioid use in the state of Wyoming. Evaluators at the Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center (WYSAC) have presented the results of the data inventory throughout this report organized by opioid-related indicators, with key findings and general notes about the data source listed.

Additionally, descriptive information about and external links to each data source are catalogued in the appendix. National data are presented here, as well as state and some local level data.

When possible, the state data are compared to the national data. WYSAC at the University of Wyoming completed this project as part of a contractual agreement with the Wyoming Department of Health, Public Health Division (WDH-PHD).

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