Email UpdatesCommunity Safety Topic - Opioids
This overview of opioids from the NSC includes information on opioid misuse, recognizing signs of an overdose, prescription painkillers and chronic pain, and more.
Patient Engagement
Can improve patient engagement, including those that promote patient activation, motivation, cultural competency, health literacy, and communication.
Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
These principles from the CDC are intended to help public health professionals, particularly health communicators, within and outside of CDC ensure their communication products and strategies adapt to the specific cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical situation of each population or audience of focus.
Words Matter - Terms to Use and Avoid When Talking About Addiction
This page offers background information and tips for providers to keep in mind while using person-first language, as well as terms to avoid to reduce stigma and negative bias when discussing addiction.
SAMHSA Recovery and Recovery Support
This SAMHSA page provides guiding principles and resources on recovery and recovery support for people with substance use disorder.
SAMHSA Behavioral Health Equity Program
This page from SAMHSA's Office of Behavioral Health Equity includes information on the drivers of behavioral health inequities and resources for several underrepresented populations.
Fostering Resilience and Recovery: A Change Package
This Change Package provides information, action steps and tools to guide implementation of a trauma-informed primary care approach.
Motivational Interviewing in Health Care,
Second Edition: Helping Patients Change Behavior
Helps health care practitioners use motivational interviewing with patients and provides tools to enhance providers' ability to assist patients with healthy decision making
Approaches for Implementing Digital Interventions for Alcohol Use Disorders in Primary Care: A Qualitative, User-Centered Design Study
Qualitative study that explores key approaches for implementation of digital interventions in primary care to treat alcohol use disorders
Fentanyl Drug Checking and Screening: Roundtable on Community Perspectives Summary Report
These proceedings summarize the discussion from the harm reduction community roundtable and supplemental individual interviews, inclusive of representatives from national and local harm reduction organizations, state and local government agencies, tribal organizations, and researchers who have experience distributing fentanyl test strips (FTS) or are knowledgeable about FTS specifically or drug checking more generally.
2022 National Drug Control Strategy
This inaugural National Strategy proposes bold, targeted, and consequential actions to bend the curve on overdose deaths in the immediate term and reduce substance use and its damaging consequences in the US over the longer term.