Email UpdatesRemove Stigma: Talk with Your Patients About Substance Use Disorder
This sheet from the CDC provides techniques for talking with patients and their families about substance use disorder.
Fact Sheet/Brochure
A compact document to convey information in a concise manner. These resources usually fit on one sheet of paper often printed on both sides, and sometimes with folds.
Organizational Action Plan
This sheet provides ideas to tackle stigma and develop an Action Plan to reduce stigma in organizations.
Ensuring appropriate quality, access, and utilization of digital therapeutics
This worksheet provides recommendations for patients, clinicians, and payors, on how to ensure digital therapeutic quality, access, and utilization when considering mental health apps, including those for substance use.
Overview of Medications Used in the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder and Frequently Asked Questions
Provides information and answers to common questions primary care clinicians may have about medications prescribed for the treatment of alcohol use disorder
Fact Sheet: President Biden to Announce Strategy to Address Our National Mental Health Crisis, As Part of Unity Agenda in His First State of the Union
Statement from the White House that describes the President's strategy to address the national mental health crisis by strengthening the healthcare system, connecting more people to mental health care, and transforming health and social services infrastructure to address mental health equitably
Behavioral Health Integration Services
This publication offers guidance on updated descriptions from CMS of most commonly used reimbursement codes for behavioral health integration services, including those related to substance use disorder.
Addressing Excessive Alcohol Use: State Fact Sheets
Summarizes statistics on alcohol use, such as number of deaths from excessive alcohol use each year, and policy solutions, such as raising taxes in each state
Language Matters Infographic – Addiction
This infographic shares guidance on avoiding stigimized language when discussing addictions.
Shatterproof Stigma Information Sheet
This information sheet provides stigmatized words to avoid when speaking about substance use disorder, and words to use instead.
Are you using compassionate SUD language?
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.