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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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Brief Screener for Tobacco, Alcohol, and other Drugs

This screening tool consists of frequency of use questions to identify risky substance use by adolescent patients. The accompanying resources assist clinicians in providing patient feedback and resources for follow-up. This tool is meant to be used under
Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Source
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Year
Resource Type
Web Page
File Size
n/a KB

NIDA Drug Use Screening Tool

Guides clinicians through a series of questions to identify risky substance use in their adult patients. Accompanying resources assist clinicians in providing patient feedback and arranging for specialty care, where necessary, using the 5 As of intervention.
Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Source
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Year

Pain Management and Opioids Free Online CME Module

This module features more than 60 case-based questions on pain management, safer prescribing of opioid analgesics, and the recognition and treatment of opioid use disorder. To ensure the development of high-quality, unbiased content in this module, we partnered with experts at Boston University School of Medicine's Safer/Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program.
Format
Web-Based Course
Audience
Medical Providers
Other Team Members
Source
NEJM Knowledge+
Year
Resource Type
Web Page

Syringe Services Programs (SSPs) FAQs

A list of FAQs which pertain to Syringe Services Programs (SSPs), community-based programs that provide access to sterile needles and syringes, facilitate safe disposal of used syringes, and provide and link to other important services and programs.
Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Patients
Communities
Other Team Members
Source
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Year
Resource Type
Web Page

Key Components for Delivering Community-Based Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Services for Opioid Use Disorders (OUD) in New Hampshire

This compilation of best practice recommendations and resources provides guidance to initiate and expand MAT programs for OUD for patient populations in a variety of service settings.
Format
Report/Paper/Issue Brief
Audience
Policymakers and Payers
States
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Source
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
3 MB