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Provides a high-level overview of clinical practice guidelines for management of chronic pain.
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VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain: Patient Summary
Provides an overview of chronic pain, including causes, diagnostic methods, and treatment options. Includes guidance on which questions patients should ask providers and where they can seek more information about chronic pain.
Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain: Improving Practice Through Recommendations
Provides guidelines that can improve communication between providers and patients about the risks and benefits of opioid therapy for chronic pain, improve the safety and effectiveness of pain treatment, and reduce the risks associated with long-term opioid therapy, including opioid use disorder and overdose.
Overview of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Care Clinical Guidelines: A Resource for States Developing SUD Delivery System Reforms
Provides information about prevention, treatment, and recovery services and levels of care on the continuum of SUD care. Includes an overview of nationally developed guidelines for SUD treatment and useful tools and examples of State-based initiatives.
Screening and Assessment for Family Engagement, Retention, and Recovery (SAFERR)
Presents the SAFERR model for helping staff of public and private agencies respond to families affected by SUDs.
Clinical Guidance for Treating Pregnant and Parenting Women With Opioid Use Disorder and Their Infants
Provides information for treating pregnant and parenting women with OUD, as well as their infants.
Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction in Opioid Treatment Programs. Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series 43
Describes the nature and dimensions of OUDs and their treatment, consensus panel recommendations and evidence-based best practices for opioid treatment programs (OTPs), related co-occurring disorders and their treatment, and ethical considerations that arise in most OTPs.
Clinical Guidelines for the Use of Buprenorphine in the Treatment of Opioid Addiction. Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series 40.
Provides guidance on the use of buprenorphine among a number of topics, including physiology and pharmacology of opioids, opioid addiction, and buprenorphine treatment; screening and assessment of OUDs; protocols for buprenorphine treatment; management of special populations; and policies and procedures related to DATA 2000.
Guidelines for the Psychosocially Assisted Pharmacological Treatment of Opioid Dependence
Provides guidelines related to opioid dependence that aim to: reduce global barriers to effective treatment; contribute to the development of evidence-based, ethical treatment policies; contribute to improvement of the quality of pharmacological treatment; and facilitate implementation of effective treatment policies and programs.
Pharmacologic Guidelines for Treating Individuals With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Co-Occurring Opioid Use Disorders
Offers guidelines for MAT for individuals, particularly veterans, with PTSD and co-occurring OUDs. Covers screening, concomitant treatment, pharmacotherapy, and multiple substances of abuse.