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Basic Coding for Integrated Behavioral Health Care

The document reviews billing codes for integrated behavioral health care, including substance use services.

Five Facts That Debunk Myths about the Opioid Crisis

The article reviews misinformation surrounding the opioid crisis and presents five facts that help to debunk these myths.

Xylazine Use Among People Who Inject Drugs

This one-hour, on-demand, journal article-based activity explores patterns of xylazine use among people who inject drugs, and considers its implications for public health.

Treating Tranq: Practical Lessons from the Epicenter of the Xylazine Crisis

This 75-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 55th Annual Conference addresses how to identify and treat xylazine-associated wounds with patient-centered strategies.This didactic case-based session addresses national xylazine trends, drug properties, overdose and withdrawal management, wound care, pain management, and harm reduction with a focus on patient-centered care.

Wounds, Withdrawal, and Overdose: What to Expect from Xylazine Drug Supply Adulteration

This 75-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 54th Annual Conference addresses the pharmacology, toxicology, diagnostic testing, and epidemiology of xylazine in exposures. The session includes didactic content, case-based narrative, review of literature, and panel discussion to review important topics about the emerging xylazine crisis in the US.

Engaging PWLEE in Overdose Data Collection, Interpretation and Dissemination

This tool highlights examples of successful People With Lived or Living Experience (PWLLE) engagement in data collection, interpretation and dissemination, as well as novel approaches to community-based participatory research, such as patient journey mapping and PWUD/researcher collectives. It also includes key considerations for gathering and disseminating data. The target audience for this tool includes the staff of epidemiology and surveillance departments.

Meaningfully Partnering With Harm Reduction Organizations and Other Community-based Organizations That Serve People Who Use Drugs

This tool highlights another valuable method for health departments to ensure the inclusion of People With Lived or Living Experience (PWLLE): establishing grantmaking programs and developing meaningful partnerships with community-based organizations (CBOs) that are led for and by PWLLE, including harm reduction organizations. The target audience for this tool includes all staff within substance use-related departments.

Engaging PWLLE in Overdose Data Collection, Interpretation and Dissemination

This tool highlights examples of successful People With Lived and Living Experience (PWLLE) engagement in data collection, interpretation and dissemination, gathered through key informant interviews — including overdose fatality review committees, drug checking, patient surveys and overdose reversal reporting — as well as novel approaches to community-based participatory research.

Hiring PWLLE Within Local and State Health Departments

This tool identifies key elements for health departments to consider when hiring People With Lived and Living Experience (PWLLE), from identification and description of job roles and responsibilities to recruitment and interviewing.

Ensuring the Inclusion of PWLLE in Health Departments’ Overdose Surveillance and Prevention Efforts

This resource presents information gleaned from an environmental scan and a series of key infomant interviews to identify ways in which health departments can meaningfully involve people with lived and/or living experience (PWLLE) in overdose surveillance and prevention.