Substance Use Tools & Resources    

Assists clinicians and administrators in implementing behavioral healthcare using telehealth by offering key considerations and examples of using telehealth for behavioral health

Assesses patients' treatment needs and whether they would be good candidates for office-based opioid treatment.

Provides a quick targeted screening in clinical and research settings with an 8-item measure.

Describes how to more effectively and safely manage patients seeking care for acute pain and encourages the clinician to carefully consider unintended consequences (abuse, misuse, overdose, addiction, and diversion) when prescribing opioids.

Provides a template for an agreement that describes the patient's responsibilities and commitment not to engage in certain activities.

Collaborative Care is a new way of doing medicine and requires an openness to creating a new vision that everyone supports. This step-by-step guide provides a broad overview of the major steps needed to successfully implement a Collaborative Care program.

Describes recommendations related to how to respond to individuals experiencing an overdose, including access to and use of naloxone.

These guidelines contain recommendations on the identification and management of substance use and substance use disorders for health care services which assist women who are pregnant, or have recently had a child, and who use alcohol or drugs or who have a substance use disorder.

Highlights the use of MAT for opioid use disorder in drug courts, reviews effective medications, and provides strategies to increase the use of MAT in drug court programs.

Teaches medical providers how to recognize and manage aberrant behaviors in patients taking prescription opioids, such as drug misuse or diversion; how to terminate opioid treatment and transition patients to alternative types of care; and how to manage disruptive or threatening patient behaviors that may arise when discontinuing opioids.