Substance Use Disorder Awareness and Education

This is the first in a series of articles on state policies that support or inhibit postpartum women’s (PPWs’) access to long-term recovery from opioid-use disorders (OUDs). It reviews current federal and state policies on mandatory reporting by health care professionals of a patient's substance use during pregnancy and their implications

This Guide to meant to help health care teams recognize, rethink and remediate the stigma and bias of words commonly used in caring for people with the chronic disease of substance use disorder:

This document summarizes the discussion from the meeting of clinicians and researchers who are knowledgeable about screening for fentanyl and other drugs, primarily in health care settings. The focus of the meeting was to understand clinician/researcher perspectives about clinical fentanyl testing and distribution of fentanyl test strips (FTS) to patients and discuss next steps for technology development, research, and practice.

This guideline updates the state of the science on pain research, care, and education with a particular focus on informing the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

The primary objectives of the SOURCE (Simulation of Opioid Use, Response, Consequences, and Effects) model are threefold: help the FDA and other stakeholders identify high-impact opioid-related interventions, assess potential unanticipated consequences of potential policies, and identify needs for further research.

This two-day public workshop convened regulators, academic researchers, clinicians, patient advocates, and other stakeholders to share information underlying this action and gather input related to the safe use of benzodiazepines.

The Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative, is an aggressive, trans-agency effort to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis.

This was a two-day virtual public workshop (which can now be re-watched) that focused on identifying gaps in existing opioid prescriber education offerings and core competencies that should be included in educational content for opioid prescribers and other healthcare providers, including prescriber education under a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS).

This was a two-day virtual public workshop (which can now be re-watched) that convened regulators, clinical researchers, providers, patient advocates, and other stakeholders to exchange information and obtain input by discussing prescriber education's potential role in alleviating the evolving opioid and substance use crisis.

The FDA Overdose Prevention Framework consists of four overarching priorities that align with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Overdose Prevention Strategy to address the public health emergency as it continues to evolve.