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This document offers robust guidance on language for promoting health equity, explores how narratives (the power behind words) matter, and provides a glossary of key terms, defining key concepts, and whenever possible acknowledging debates over definitions and usage.

This toolkit was developed to assist administrators, directors, and supervisors of treatment organizations who have recently hired (or plan to hire) peers into new support roles with the agency. It is an interactive PDF that presents key information in brief reads, yet preserves the opportunity to delve deeper into subjects.

The purpose of this resource guide is to share practical strategies and resources implemented by the Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Investment Program awardees for addressing opioid use disorder (OUD) stigma in hospitals treating pregnant and parenting women with OUD.

This information sheet provides stigmatized words to avoid when speaking about substance use disorder, and words to use instead.

This toolkit focuses on structural stigma oriented toward health care professionals and systems-based approaches.

This guide will serve as a compendium of key policies for the prevention of alcohol misuse that have been identified as evidence-based by robust scientific literature.

By addressing the conditions that give rise to ACEs and simultaneously addressing the needs of children and parents, these strategies take a multi-generation approach to prevent ACEs and ensure safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.

This polling presentation include key findings and results from a 2021 poll conducted on the utilization of mental health and substance use treatment services.

This study attempts to answer two core questions: how many lives and how many dollars could be saved if the mental and behavioral health care system became more equitable?

This is one of a series posters to help organizations teach their employees adopt patient-centered, respectful language when talking to and about individuals with substance use disorder.