Substance Use Tools & Resources    

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.

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.