Substance Use Disorder Awareness and Education

Part of the Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit. Explains the scope of the opioid use disorder problem, strategies to prevent overdose deaths, and resources for communities.

Provides principles and language suggestions that clinicians can use when discussing opioid risks and safety monitoring or introducing a change in treatment plan.

These are slides for a module about how shame plays an important role in OUDs and how it can impede treatment if not addressed.

Provides information to increase awareness about how prescription opioids can be addictive and dangerous.

Provides information about and toolkits for rural communities combatting the opioid crisis.

Equips local health department staff to respond to manifestations of this epidemic in their own towns and cities and provides a one-stop reference guide of promising practices, information, knowledge gleaned from the field, tools, and training.

Encourages communities to replicate the collaborative approach that exists in State government to increase the capacity of local partners to implement effective responses to opioid abuse and addiction.

Addresses concerns about prescription drug abuse and maternal-fetal exposure to opioids.

Includes resources for hospitals and health systems to share with clinicians and patients and to enhance partnerships within their communities.

Distills key concepts and evidence-based strategies into short, easy-to-read sections; offers interactive activities to help understand how these concepts relate to a community's work in substance abuse prevention; and provides tips, exercises, and worksheets to apply the concepts within a community.