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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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Reducing Stigma Toward Families Impacted by Opioid Use Disorder

The purpose of this resource guide is to share practical strategies and resources implemented by the Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Investment Program awardees for addressing opioid use disorder (OUD) stigma in hospitals treating pregnant and parenting women with OUD.
Format
Guide
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Source
Massachusetts Health Policy Commission
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
1.18 MB

Reimbursement for Medications for Addiction Treatment Toolkit

This guide provides considerations and strategies for clinicians and organizations implementing evidence-based practices. Approaches presented will assist clinicians, behavioral health organizations, primary care providers, insurers, and policy makers in understanding, selecting, and implementing evidence-based interventions that support adults with concurrent substance use and/or concurrent substance use disorders, including alcohol.

Format
Toolkit
Audience
Behavioral Health Providers
Medical Providers
Other Team Members
Policymakers and Payers
States
Source
Providers Clinical Support System (PCSS)
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
1.82 MB

Safe Use of Benzodiazepines: Clinical, Regulatory, and Public Health Perspectives

This two-day public workshop convened regulators, academic researchers, clinicians, patient advocates, and other stakeholders to share information underlying this action and gather input related to the safe use of benzodiazepines.
Format
Webinar/Video
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Communities
Policymakers and Payers
Source
Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy / Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Year
Resource Type
Video

Screening and Interventions for Social Risk Factors: A Technical Brief to Support the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

This technical brief highlights research on screening and interventions for social risk factors, including screening for substance use, and presents gaps in the research as well as challenges of implementing these interventions.

Format
Report/Paper/Issue Brief
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Practice Facilitators/Quality Improvement Coaches
Source
Eder M, et al.
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
2.9 MB

Speaking the Same Language: A Toolkit for Strengthening Patient-Centered Addiction Care in the United States

This toolkit offers high-level strategies for integrating The American Society of Addiction Medicine Criteria into a state’s approach to SUD services, as well as potential pathways, implementation vehicles, state examples, model legislative, regulatory, and contractual language.
Format
Toolkit
Audience
Medical Providers
Policymakers and Payers
States
Source
The Wellbeing Trust
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
3.84 MB

State Approaches to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment across the Correctional Continuum

This toolkit, informed by interviews with key leaders across several states, examines state policy actions at each of the intercept levels defined in the Sequential Intercept Model framework, and explores opportunities for states to successfully integrate treatment and prevention services across the behavioral health and criminal justice continuum.
Format
Toolkit
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Schools
Policymakers and Payers
States
Source
National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
1.02 MB

State-Level Economic Costs of Opioid Use Disorder and Fatal Opioid Overdose — United States, 2017

These estimated costs of opioid use disorder and fatal opioid overdose and their per capita costs at the state level can assist federal and state decision makers in understanding the magnitude of opioid use disorder and fatal opioid overdose in their jurisdictions.
Format
Report/Paper/Issue Brief
Audience
Policymakers and Payers
States
Source
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
217 KB

Structural Racism and Supporting People of Color: The Role of Prevention Professionals

These organizational action items empower prevention professionals to incorporate anti-racism into the operational practices and community outcomes of their substance use prevention work.
Format
Toolkit
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Other Team Members
Policymakers and Payers
Source
Pacific Southwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC)
Year
Resource Type
PDF
File Size
244 KB