A Guide to Using Text Messages to Improve Substance Use Treatment Outcomes
This guide describes benefits and best practices of using text messages as an adjunct to treatment and follow-up for substance use disorders.
This collection of tools and resources is for providers, staff, and patients who offer or use services to address substance use, and other interested stakeholders. This collection was originally established following an environmental scan on implementing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD) in rural primary care. (See PDFs of Volume 1 [PDF 0.69 MB] and Volume 2 [PDF 1.28 MB] of that scan). Items have been continuously added to this collection since then, and the collection has expanded to cover substance use more broadly, rather than just MAT for OUD.
This guide describes benefits and best practices of using text messages as an adjunct to treatment and follow-up for substance use disorders.
Provides examples of patient behaviors that may indicate prescription medication abuse or addiction and behaviors that may appear aberrant but are likely to be part of the normal process of stabilizing a patient's pain condition.
Provides a template to track inventory of stock buprenorphine supplies, including patient, quantity dispensed, and manufacturer and lot number.
Illustrates how to implement a narcotic contract with a patient. Is part of a course called "The Clinical Assessment of Substance Use Disorders," available at https://webcampus.med.drexel.edu/doccom/db/nida_1.html.
Asks the patient to agree to follow the treatment plan, keep appointments, and take medicine as prescribed.
Offers a number of trainings related to MAT and opioid use disorder (OUD), including a number of archived webinars. Covers topics such as developing Federal policy related to MAT, expanding access to treatment with innovative care models, treating co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, managing pain in patients on MAT, and improving long-term outcomes of MAT.
Contains resources for addiction medicine professionals to create comprehensive and individualized treatment plans.