The Opioid Crisis: Treating Addiction and Saving Lives
Explores ways to expand the use of evidence-based treatment for OUD.
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.
Explores ways to expand the use of evidence-based treatment for OUD.
Addresses prevention of opioid use disorder by exploring efforts across the health system to stop opioid abuse before it starts.
Reviews three FDA-approved medications for OUD treatment (methadone, naltrexone, and buprenorphine) and the other strategies and services needed to support people in recovery.
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: