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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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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

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

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

Toward an Addiction-ary: Language, Stigma, Treatment, and Policy

These are presentation slides which demonstrate the impact of stigma with facts and figures. They were presented by John F. Kelly, Ph.D. at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals Conference in Anaheim, CA in June 2016.

Format
Other
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Source
Faces & Voices of Recovery
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
3.5 KB

MCPAP for Moms

MCPAP for Moms provides obstetricians, midwives, and PCPs with psychiatric consultation for behavioral health concerns and questions around medications when pregnant or breastfeeding. MCPAP for Moms also supports connections with community-based services and support groups.

Format
Web Page
Source
Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program (MCPAP) for Moms
Year
Resource Type
Web Page

Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Substance Use Disorders: Second Edition

A Practice Guideline which includes treatment recommendations for patients with substance use disorders, as well as background information and a review of available evidence.
Format
Guide
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Source
American Psychiatric Association (APA)
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
2.9 MB