Substance Use Tools & Resources    

Provides presentations, documents, forms, and videos about the use of naloxone in opioid overdoses. Resource categories are First Responder Naloxone Training Program, Naloxone Program Forms, Naloxone Training Forms, and Videos.

Provides resources for clinicians interested in initiating buprenorphine treatment in emergency department settings.

Equips healthcare providers, communities, and local governments with material to develop practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Addresses issues for healthcare providers, first responders, treatment providers, and those recovering from opioid overdose.

Part of the Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit. Explains the scope of the opioid use disorder problem, strategies to prevent overdose deaths, and resources for communities.

Highlights the different types of opioids and medication-assisted treatment.

Summarizes the requirements of confidentiality rules set forth under the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and suggests steps primary care practices can take to maintain compliance.

Explores the tension between efforts to address the opioid epidemic and the resulting impact on access to pain medications for people facing serious illness; examines the unintended consequences of the responses to the opioid epidemic for patients, families, communities, and clinicians; and considers potential policy opportunities to address them.

Discusses the alternative payment model designed to improve outcomes and reduce spending for opioid addiction by overcoming the barriers in the current payment system for successful outpatient care.

This implementation guide serves to provide other medical clinics seeking to integrate maternal mental health care into obstetric and/or pediatric settings with best practices for doing so.

Provides a general overview of the principles that characterize effective treatment for drug addiction and can be used to introduce staff and patients to this topic.