MAT Tools and Resources

Offers awareness training to disseminate information and enhance awareness among multidisciplinary (nonphysician) addiction professionals about buprenorphine treatment. Provides a broad overview of the medication, its effects, and the role of nonphysician practitioners.

Introduces health professionals, students, and primary care residents to a standardized approach to the management of patients with chronic nonmalignant pain that integrates techniques for the prevention and detection of misuse of prescription opioids.

Teaches medical providers how to recognize and manage aberrant behaviors in patients taking prescription opioids, such as drug misuse or diversion; how to terminate opioid treatment and transition patients to alternative types of care; and how to manage disruptive or threatening patient behaviors that may arise when discontinuing opioids.

Helps clinicians screen their patients for SUDs, conduct brief interventions for patients in the early stages of problem development, and appropriately refer more severely affected patients for indepth assessment and treatment.

Provides a high-level overview of clinical practice guidelines for management of chronic pain.

Provides guidance to State medical and osteopathic boards in assessing physician’s’ management of pain in their patients and whether opioid analgesics are being prescribed appropriately.

Provides recommendations that assist the practitioner and patient in making decisions about healthcare, specifically chronic pain management.

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.

Provides recommendations for clinicians providing pain care, including those prescribing opioids, for outpatients aged ≥ 18 years. It updates the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain - United States, 2016.

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.