Email UpdatesTHRIVE Social Determinants of Health Screening Tool
Boston Medical Center uses THRIVE Screening Tool to identify in electronic health records and code social determinant of health needs of 57,000 patients.
MAT Tools and Resources
The MAT Tools & Resources Collection is a searchable database of tools and resources available to help those who offer or use MAT services. The tools can be filtered by a number of factors, including use, topic, format, audience, and terms of use. Related to the MAT for OUD Environmental scan publications.
SCOPE of Pain
SCOPE of Pain is a series of continuing medical education/continuing nursing education activities designed to help you safely and effectively manage patients with acute and/or chronic pain, when appropriate, with opioid analgesics.
Evidence-Based Strategies for Preventing Opioid Overdose: What's Working in the United States An introduction for public heath, law enforcement, local organizations, and others striving to serve their community
This document is to assist community leaders, local and regional organizers, non-profit groups, law enforcement, public health, and members of the public in understanding and navigating effective strategies to prevent opioid overdose in their communities.
Guidance on Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics: Older Adults and People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Community Settings
The brief is intended primarily for physicians and other prescribers as well as support staff, administrators, and caregivers working with people with dementia and intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in community settings. To reduce inappropriate prescribing, this brief reviews non-pharmacologic behavioral approaches and strategies to avoid and reduce prescribing of antipsychotics whenever possible.
Understanding Medication in Addiction Treatment for Drug Court Participants
This pocket guide is for drug court participants who may be prescribed or considering medication as a part of addiction treatment, as well as their families and support systems, including peer mentors, recovery coaches, and peer recovery specialists.
A Drug Court Team Member's Guide to Medication in Addiction Treatment
This pocket guide is intended for non-clinical drug court team members (e.g., court coordinators, judges, defense attorneys, prosecutors, parole officers, case managers, peer mentors, recovery coaches). It will describe how the team member can support both the provider and those participants prescribed or considering medication-assisted treatment (MAT).
A Drug Court Clinician's Guide for Linking People to Opioid Treatment Services in Outpatient Offices, Clinics, and Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs)
This pocket guide is designed to help counselors and therapists working with drug court participants refer and link participants to opioid treatment services in outpatient offices, clinics, and Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs).
How to Track Treatment Progress and Adherence with the ASAM Criteria (Slides)
The slides from this informative webinar will aid drug court team members in tracking treatment progress and ensuring that participants adhere to medication in addiction treatment. jointly sponsored by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals and the American Society of Addiction Medicine, this webinar was designed especially for judges, coordinators, prosecutors, defense attorneys, supervision officers, case managers, and other team members who refer, monitor, or otherwise support behavioral health treatment in drug courts.
Nursing Follow-Up: Naltrexone
This document has been reproduced with permission from Boston Medical Center(c) and is excerpted from: LaBelle, C. T.; Bergeron, L. P.; Wason, K.W.; and Ventura, A. S. Policy and Procedure Manual of the Office Based Addiction Treatment Program for the use of Buprenorphine and Naltrexone Formulations in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders. Unpublished treatment manual, Boston Medical Center, 2016.
Pain Management and Opioids Free Online CME Module
This module features more than 60 case-based questions on pain management, safer prescribing of opioid analgesics, and the recognition and treatment of opioid use disorder. To ensure the development of high-quality, unbiased content in this module, we partnered with experts at Boston University School of Medicine's Safer/Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program.