Training and Education About Substance Use Treatment

Offers resources to find buprenorphine treatment.

Provides information for patients on how to locate a physician certified to provide buprenorphine 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.

Provides information for nurses and other clinical support staff who assist with buprenorphine induction and maintenance.

Provides patients and families who are thinking about seeking help for an opioid problem or considering medications that help with recovery from OUD with information to support these decisions.

Reviews three FDA-approved medications for OUD treatment (methadone, naltrexone, and buprenorphine) and the other strategies and services needed to support people in recovery.

Assesses substance abuse fact-based skills and clinical decision making among physicians. Refers to article: "The Physicians' Competence in Substance Abuse Test (P-CSAT): A Multidimensional Educational Measurement Tool for Substance Abuse Training Programs."

Presents promising practices, guidelines, and resources for people working in jail-based MAT.

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.

Provides core competencies for education on opioids and addiction to be used in medical schools.