MAT Tools and Resources

Uses the principles of health literacy and a multimodal, team-based approach to promote the appropriate, safe, and effective use of opioids to manage chronic pain. Allows participants to assume the role of four playable characters who make decisions about preventing opioid-related adverse events.

Presents a comprehensive core curriculum for primary care providers in treating chronic pain and addressing concerns about opioid use disorder.

Helps medical staff learn to manage patients' pain by providing tools that can be used to better assess and manage pain.

Trains providers on opioid safety/overdose prevention and training patients to respond to an overdose with naloxone.

Allows medical students and other health professionals to use a test-and-teach module to practice their clinical skills. Describes the prevalence of prescription opioid abuse in the United States and the skills and tools clinicians can use to screen for and prevent abuse in patients with pain.

Provides training to primary care providers through text and instructional videos that address the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed in the screening, evaluation, and referral of patients with substance abuse disorders.

Provides a national training and mentoring project developed in response to the prescription opioid misuse epidemic, and offers evidence-based, educational opioid use resources for healthcare providers.

Assesses pain and opioid risk in chronic pain patients with a web-based clinical tool that provides patient assessments for pain and opioid use, as well as at-a-glance reports for healthcare providers and patients.

Offers continuing medical education/continuing nursing education activities, which help providers learn to safely and effectively manage patients with chronic pain, when appropriate, with opioid analgesics.

Informs families about how MAT for opioid addiction works.