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Substance Use Tools & Resources   

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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.

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Opioid Use and Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy

This is an opinion piece that provides background, recommendations, and conclusions for the treatment of pregnant women with opioid use and opioid use disorder, to improve maternal and infant outcomes.

Format
Report/Paper/Issue Brief
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
States
Communities
Source
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
Year
Resource Type
Web Page

Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic: Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use

This guideline updates the state of the science on pain research, care, and education with a particular focus on informing the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Format
Guide
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Policymakers and Payers
Source
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
11.2 MB

CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain – United States, 2016

Provides recommendations for primary care clinicians who are prescribing opioids for chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Addresses timing of opioid use for chronic pain; opioid selection, dosage, duration, followup, and discontinuation; and ways to assess risk and address harms of opioid use.
Format
Guide
Audience
Medical Providers
Source
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Year

Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity (COCA) Webinar Series

Uses a data-driven approach to help providers choose the most effective pain treatment options and improve the safety of opioid prescribing for chronic pain. Provides informative, case-based content that instructs participants on how the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain can be applied in a primary care practice setting.

Format
Web-Based Course
Webinar/Video
Audience
Medical Providers
Other Team Members
Source
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and University of Washington
Year

Drug Diversion Toolkit: Prescription Opioids — An Overview for Prescribers and Pharmacists

Informs prescribers and pharmacists about prescription opioids diverted for nonmedical use, opioid regulatory requirements, value of participating in State-managed prescription drug monitoring programs, risk evaluation and mitigation strategies, and prescriber tactics that may reduce the likelihood of diversion.
Link
https://www.homestatehealth.com/content/dam/centene/home-state-health/pdfs/drugdiversion-opioids-booklet.pdf
Format
Toolkit
Audience
Medical Providers
Source
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Year

OpiSafe

This is a fact sheet for the OpiSafe website, which provides support for opioid prescribers by performing risk stratification for each patient on the basis of morphine-equivalent dosing ranges, pain and function scores, opioid misuse risk scores, and automated prescription drug monitoring program checks.

Format
Web Page
Audience
Medical Providers
Source
OpiSafe
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
1.5 MB

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Evidence-Based Practices To Optimize Prescriber Use

Describes eight evidence-based practices aimed at increasing prescriber use of prescription drug monitoring programs.
Format
Report/Paper/Issue Brief
Audience
Policymakers and Payers
States
Source
Pew Charitable Trusts and Institute for Behavioral Health, Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University
Year