Handbook

Value-based payment (VBP) models pay health care providers based on the value rather than the volume of services. Use of these models has been concentrated in physical health services. However, due to the magnitude of substance use disorders (SUDs) in the United States, there has been a growing movement toward using VBP for SUD treatment…

IntroductionProspective legalization of drugs is a sensitive and complicated topic that inevitably evokes visceral reactions from most observers. Legalization proponents believe the drug war has represented a vast overreach of government power and that this power has often been applied in arbitrary and discriminatory ways. Often, the so-called “War on Drugs” has served as a…