Substance Use Tools & Resources    

This blog post highlights key challenges facing care coordination in substance use disorder care

This brief draws on research and��interviews to offer providers guidance on developing and financing low-barrier care models for people experiencing homelessness.

This blog post presents a case study of a pediatric patient who died by opioid overdose and provides commentary on the case and highlights ways to improve patient safety.

The guide urges all community mental health and substance use treatment clinicians to provide long-acting medications as a first-line treatment option.

This toolkit provides mental health resources in advance of Mental Health Month.

This document seeks to promote crisis service quality and consistency, and further payer adoption of emergency, crisis, and crisis-related behavioral health services. Achieving these goals will support increased access to quality, equitable emergency, and crisis care for all individuals.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA’s) new National Guidance on Essential Specialty Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Care articulates a core or essential set of services for adults with SUD that should be available at any specialty SUD treatment facility in the United States.

NativeAIR contains reviews of evidence-based alcohol interventions for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) and other Indigenous communities from published, peer-reviewed studies. NativeAIR highlights 39 total interventions organized into three areas: prevention interventions for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, prevention interventions for alcohol misuse, and treatment interventions for alcohol use disorder. Experts reviewed each intervention utilizing a rigorous set of criteria. Many of the interventions include important aspects of cultural relevance and Tribal inclusion.

This guide recommends that trained physicians consider prescribing certain psychostimulants for the treatment of cocaine use disorder and amphetamine-type stimulant use disorder.