Medical Providers

This resources provides a review of best practices in implementing hard reduction services within behavioral health organizations. It includes resources to help organizations achieve team buy-in to offering these services.

This resource provides information to loved ones on how to have conversations with people experiencing a substance use challenge.

This resource provides tips for providers who engage with motivational interviewing when treating substance use difficulties.

This paper explores factors that drive the high maternal mortality rate in the United States. It discusses workforce shortages, inequalities in care, social drivers of health (including racism, discrimination, and trauma), and emphasizes the importance of comprehensive, holistic, and culturally- and trauma-informed care.

This correspondence provides updates on the May 2023 Xylazine Exposure Guidance and discusses implications for clinical practice and frontline public health.

This guide equips advocates and changemakers with key information about pharmacy services, including an overview of the system’s inequities, and highlights the policy and accountability levers that can advance equity.

This guide equips advocates with key information about the Veterans Health Administration, including an overview of the system’s inequities, and highlights the policy and accountability levers that can advance equity.

This news release summarizes a new study which identified the top reasons why some physicians may be reluctant to intervene in addiction. The comprehensive review, pulling 283 studies published on this topic within the last 61 years, showed that “institutional environment” was the reason most frequently reported in these studies.

This web page provides resources for caring for BIPOC individuals on their mental health journeys. It discusses racism, discrimination, and health disparities experienced in these community. It also duscusses stigma within comunities and how to employ culturally informed practices.