Substance Use Tools & Resources    

Provides information about and toolkits for rural communities combatting the opioid crisis.

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

Supplies guidelines for 11 medical specialties on the safe and effective use of opioids in the treatment of pain.

Provides a sample treatment agreement that describes the patient's responsibilities as well as the risks and side effects of using opioid medications.

Provides a directory for opioid treatment programs by State.

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

This module features more than 60 case-based questions on pain management, safer prescribing of opioid analgesics, and the recognition and treatment of opioid use disorder. To ensure the development of high-quality, unbiased content in this module, we partnered with experts at Boston University School of Medicine's Safer/Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program.

Helps medical staff learn to manage patients' pain by providing tools that can be used to better assess and manage pain.

Assesses pain and opioid risk in chronic pain patients with a web-based clinical tool that provides patient assessments for pain and opioid use, as well as at-a-glance reports for healthcare providers and patients.

Includes depression-related items from the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD) diagnostic tool for common mental disorders in a 9-item scale. Helps clinicians make a tentative diagnosis of depression and to monitor depression severity and response to treatment in the past 2 weeks.