Substance Use Tools & Resources    

Provides substance abuse treatment providers with updated information on co-occurring substance use and mental disorders and advances in treatment for people with co-occurring disorders. Discusses terminology, assessment, and treatment strategies and models.

Describes the core elements of SBIRT programs and provides general administrative and managerial information relevant to implementing SBIRT services, including effectiveness, implementation models, challenges and barriers to implementation, issues of cost and sustainability, real-life program anecdotes, and case studies.

Guides behavioral health organizations through assessing readiness to adopt telehealth

This fact sheet discusses the benefits of early screening, brief intervention, and referrral to treatment, including saving lives and reducing health care costs.

Provides clinical recommendations for initiating and maintaining chronic opioid therapy of 90 days or longer.

Assesses the evidence regarding the use and abuse of opioids by chronic noncancer pain patients to create a set of clinical practice guidelines for the responsible prescribing of opioids.

Provides information on the potential benefits and risks of opioid medications and documents that both the patient and provider agree on a care plan.

Offers clinicians information on medications for opioid addiction treatment, including side effects, drug interactions, and take-home doses. Discusses patient counseling, associated medical problems, hepatitis C evaluation, drug testing, and pregnant women.