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Value-based payment strategies have demonstrated the ability to reduce costs and improve quality in behavioral health care writes Dr. Harold Alan Pincus.

Dr. Carl Hart says, 75% of people who die from an opioid death have another sedative or benzodiazepine like Xanax or alcohol on board and this increases the likelihood of death.

So far, there have been three controlled trials of AOT, but, Dr. Paul Appelbaum says, “nobody agrees on what the data actually mean.”

Dr. Mark Olfson said the data provides a clear picture of the American healthcare system: big on pills, vague on alternative methods.