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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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Perinatal Mental Health Integration Guide

This implementation guide serves to provide other medical clinics seeking to integrate maternal mental health care into obstetric and/or pediatric settings with best practices for doing so.

Format
Guide
Audience
Behavioral Health Providers
Communities
Families
Medical Providers
Other Team Members
Patients
Source
Maternal Mental Health NOW
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
3.2 MB

Sitgma and OUD

Nurse Practitioner Vanessa Loukas, a PCSS expert, discusses the issue of stigma in treating patients with opioid use disorder (OUD)—from the patients to the providers who treat them.
Format
Webinar/Video
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Families
Source
Providers Clinical Support System (PCSS)
Year
Resource Type
Video

The Power of Perceptions and Understanding: Changing How We Deliver Treatment and Recovery Services

This four-part webcast series educated healthcare professionals about the importance of using approaches that are free of discriminatory attitudes and behaviors in treating individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and related conditions, as well as patients living their lives in recovery.
Format
Web-Based Course
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Source
Substance Use and Mental Health Services Adminitration (SAMHSA)
Year
Resource Type
Web Page

Words Matter: Improving the Substance Use Conversation A Guide for Health Care Teams

This Guide to meant to help health care teams recognize, rethink and remediate the stigma and bias of words commonly used in caring for people with the chronic disease of substance use disorder:

Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Behavioral Health Providers
Medical Providers
Other Team Members
Source
Maine Equality (MEC)
Year
Resource Type
Web Page

Peer Support Toolkit

This toolkit was developed to assist administrators, directors, and supervisors of treatment organizations who have recently hired (or plan to hire) peers into new support roles with the agency. It is an interactive PDF that presents key information in brief reads, yet preserves the opportunity to delve deeper into subjects.
Format
Toolkit
Audience
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Source
City of Philadephia - Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS)
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
10.7 MB

Words Matter: How Language Choice Can Reduce Stigma

This resource examines the role of language in perpetuating substance use disorder stigma, followed by tips for assessing when and how we may be using stigmatizing language, and steps for ensuring that the language we use and messages we deliver are positive and productive.

Format
Guide
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Communities
Families
Schools
Source
Education Development Center (EDC)
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
384 KB