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 - 609 KB) and Volume 2 (PDF - 1.3 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 (PDF - 181 KB)
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 (PDF - 1.05 KB)
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 (PDF - 316 KB)
This paper offers principle and recommendations for remediating the impacts of the rising rates of drugs adulterated or laced with fentanyl.
Medicare Coverage of Substance Use Disorder Care: A Landscape Review of Benefit Coverage, Service Gaps and a Path to Reform (PDF - 673 KB)
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 (PDF - 25.2 MB)
Proposed Guidance for Toxicology Testing of Pregnant Patients (PDF - 88.1 KB)
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) (PDF - 273 KB)
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.
Treatment for Youth and Young Adults with Mood Disorders and other Serious Emotional Disturbances and Co-occurring Substance Use (PDF - 19.5 MB)
This guide presents three evidence based practices that engage and improve outcomes for youth and young adults with co-occurring SED/SMI and substance misuse or SUD. These approaches will assist clinicians, behavioral health organizations, primary care providers, schools, insurers, transformation experts, and policy makers to understand, select, and implement evidence-based interventions that support youth and young adult mental health. These include psychosocial interventions, family behavioral therapy, medication, proactive outreach, and use of web-based and other technologies.
