Substance Use Tools & Resources    

This guide is a resource for health care systems to improve mental health and well-being in the communities they serve, focusing specifically on saving lives from deaths of despair. The guide endeavors to provide a comprehensive framework in which multiple stakeholders (e.g., people from marginalized populations and communities and leaders in sectors such as health care, education, justice system, local government, employers) can identify themselves and their contributions. A specific emphasis is placed on the role of health care systems in impacting the care they deliver and leveraging all of their assets to improve the health of populations and communities.

A toolkit to promote the overall health and well-being of pregnant people who use substances and their families.

This guide describes relevant research findings, examines best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources for treating stimulant use disorders.

On online resource to train people to respond effectively to an opioid overdose emergency.

Outlines the process of developing and managing an overdose prevention and education program, with or without a take-home naloxone component.

Trains providers on opioid safety/overdose prevention and training patients to respond to an overdose with naloxone.

Contains training videos on how to recognize and respond to an overdose and information on naloxone administration, harm reduction education, and resources.

Gives a sample naloxone prescription program reporting form to be entered into the patient record or chart or given to the primary care provider.

Gives a sample informed consent form that can be used by pharmacists dispensing naloxone rescue kits.

Provides information to prescribers and pharmacists about prescribing and dispensing naloxone (Narcan) rescue kits.