From AHRQ (Volume 2), a resource that provides tools and strategies for rural primary care providers to: 1) prevent opioid use disorder (OUD); 2) educate on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD); 3) implement MOUD; and 4) prevent opioid overdose.  

This report acts as a resource guide for service providers on improving outcomes for American Indian and Alaskan Native individuals who were previously incarcerated and are returning to their communities. The guide outlines suggestions such as culturally responsive programs and resources offering stable housing and substance use needs. 

This is a training program from the Indian Health Service to prepare first responders to use naloxone for an opioid overdose. Educational material on naloxone, including links to training videos, are provided. 

This issue brief, a product of several collaborating organizations including IDSA, HIVMA and PIDS, identifies policy issues and provides comprehensive recommendations for addressing infectious diseases related to opioid use disorder. 

This academic paper assesses the readiness of churches in the Appalachian Highlands to address addiction by developing the Church Addiction Response Scale. This scale is a 41 item survey which addresses views about addiction, views about interacting with people who are addicted to substances, and views about the church's role in addressing addiction. The results suggest that equipping a church-based workforce to provide support for people living with addiction seems attainable. 

This is an academic paper that provides commentary on innovative strategies to increase physical distancing among those with substance use disorders beyond relaxing regulations for buprenrophine and methadone as part of the response to the Covid/coronavirus pandemic. 

This report provides summary guidance and recommendations from CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for prevention and control of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB) for persons who use drugs illicitly. It also summarizes existing evidence of effectiveness for practices to support delivery of integrated prevention services.

This is an academic paper discussing The Opioid Initiative, launched in Oregon in 2015, which focuses on integrating efforts to improve patient care and safety, and population health, by increasing access to nonopioid pain treatment, supporting medications for opioid use disorder and naloxone access for people taking opioids, decreasing opioid prescribing, and using data to inform policies and interventions. This state initiative has shown promising results. 

This is a publication by the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) that highlights strategies states are using to better deploy emergency intervention to reduce opioid overdose deaths, improve access to care, and provide better treatment services in rural areas.

This report also describes sustainable financing structures to support these strategies and services. There is also mention of unique rural barriers and how to overcome them as well as case studies of comprehensive community responses.

In this academic paper, the authors investigated how syringe service programs can prove their cost effectiveness by calculating how many HIV infections the program would need to prevent in order to be considered cost-saving. The study concluded that the syringe service program would only need to prevent three HIV infections in their community to be considered cost effective. 

This is a free curriculum offered by the National Harm Reduction Coalition and aims to provide a structured course for providing harm reduction in communities and building community support for harm reduction interventions. The course includes information on drug-induced homicide, syringe access barriers, and the intersectionality of drug use with other environmental factors. 

This is an academic paper that uses a survey among law enforcement officers in High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTAs) to explore knowledge and attitudes towards responding to opioid overdoses. Though most officers have access to naloxone and been trained to respond to an opioid overdose, some (15%) report not having access to naloxone. Negative attitudes towards overdose prevention were more likely in those that responded to many overdose calls.