Substance Use Tools & Resources
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.
Checklist of Evidence-Based Recommendations for Caring for Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorder
The following checklist intends to support health care teams in providing evidence-based recommendations for treating pregnant and postpartum patients with OUD. The checklist is divided into five sections, sequenced by timing of presentation to care.
Getting Candid: Framing the Conversation Around Youth Substance Use Prevention
This guide and toolkit was created to support and empower youth-serving providers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to engage youth in substance use prevention conversations, including what not to say, and how to help young people connect with services when needed.
Guidance on Handling the Increasing Prevalence of Drugs Adulterated or Laced with Fentanyl
This paper offers principle and recommendations for remediating the impacts of the rising rates of drugs adulterated or laced with fentanyl.
Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States: Results from the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
Medicare Coverage of Substance Use Disorder Care: A Landscape Review of Benefit Coverage, Service Gaps and a Path to Reform
This report provides information about Medicare reimbursement for substance use disorder services and details gaps in Medicare coverage with recommendations to address these gaps.
Practical Tools for Prescribing and Promoting Buprenorphine in Primary Care Settings
Proposed Guidance for Toxicology Testing of Pregnant Patients
This guidance provides recommendations for screening pregnant patients for substance use disorder (SUD) to enhance the well-being of the maternalfetal dyad.
Rapid Opioid Dependence Screen (RODS)
Tele-Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
This is a best practice guide about using telehealth for the treatment of substance use disorders, including information about screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment.