Substance Use Tools & Resources    

Offers healthcare systems and practices a provider-focused resource to help move the content of the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain into clinical practice.

Describes strategies to help reduce the potential for misuse or diversion of medication for SUD treatment.

Supplements outpatient OUD treatment programs and serves as a training, monitoring, and reminder tool for healthcare providers and patients in maintaining an outpatient treatment program.

Patients in recovery from addiction and family members discuss the importance of having support and encouragement from the medical staff during treatment.

Tips to help people stay safer and healthier no matter how they choose to change your use.

This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) was written to help counselors and organizations provide culturally responsive services.

Lists various screening and assessment tools for alcohol and drug use.

Provides strategies to build support for expanding the use of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and resources for securing buy-in.

Nurse Practitioner Vanessa Loukas, a PCSS expert, discusses the issue of stigma in treating patients with opioid use disorder (OUD)—from the patients to the providers who treat them.

Provides an evidence-based quality improvement roadmap to help primary care teams implement effective, guideline-driven care for their chronic pain and long-term opioid therapy patients.