MAT Tools and Resources

Provides recommendations for primary care clinicians who are prescribing opioids for chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Addresses timing of opioid use for chronic pain; opioid selection, dosage, duration, followup, and discontinuation; and ways to assess risk and address harms of opioid use.

Supplies guidelines for 11 medical specialties on the safe and effective use of opioids in the treatment of pain.

Provides up-to-date product and safety information for NARCAN® Nasal Spray. Includes a simple to follow usage guide, pharmacy locator, and training videos.

OpiRescue is a free overdose support tool provided by OpiSafe, a safe opioid prescribing platform for care providers. Offers step-by-step instructions for administrating multiple forms of Narcan or naloxone.

Supplements outpatient OUD treatment programs and serves as a training, monitoring, and reminder tool for healthcare providers and patients in maintaining an outpatient treatment program.

Contains 13 physically observable signs, rated present or absent, based on a rater’s timed observation of the patient.

Assesses the presence of withdrawal symptoms from opioids using a 9-point scale to describe how the patient has been feeling in the past 24 hours.

Assess patient withdrawal symptoms.

Measures 11 signs and symptoms commonly seen in patients during narcotic withdrawal. This scale can help gauge the severity of the symptoms and monitor changes in clinical status over time.

Rates 11 common opiate withdrawal signs or symptoms with a clinician-administered pen-and-paper instrument. Uses the summed score of the 11 items to assess patients’ level of withdrawal and make inferences about their level of physical dependence on opioids.