This report outlines how to maximize opportunities for linkage to care already present in our current healthcare system. These recommendations offer guidance on how to develop and implement effective linkage to care strategies for healthcare professionals and other community leaders in public health, education, criminal justice, social services, business, and government. The aim of this document is to provide the tools to these entities to increase access and linkage to medications for opioid use disorder. 

This systematic review characterizes the existing experimental, quasi-experimental, single- and multi-group prospective and retrospective, and cross-sectional research on peer recovery support services.

Findings to date tentatively speak to the potential of peer supports across a number of SUD treatment settings, as evidenced by positive findings on measures including reduced substance use and SUD relapse rates, improved relationships with treatment providers and social supports, increased treatment retention, and greater treatment satisfaction.

This is a report that guides communities on effectively using potential opioid settlement money. There is specific focus on how communities can successfully invest one-time resources in sustainable, evidence-based early intervention, treatment, and recovery services.

This report describes the ways and extent to which state Medicaid programs covered peer support services for adult Medicare beneficiaries with substance use disorders (SUD) and how three state Medicaid programs - Colorado, Missouri, and Oregon - offered these services. The experience of these programs can assist other states in optimizing the management of peer support services.

This toolkit developed by the Alaska Native Tribal Consortium focuses on the provision of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services in rural areas of Alaska. The guide is aimed at educating healthcare providers who want to learn more about addiction medicine, practitioners who want to start an MAT program in their community, as well as current practitioners of addiction medicine. 

This is a website that provides online meetings and in-person meeting locations for a 12-Step fellowship specifically for those using medications, who sometimes feel stigmatized in other 12-Step fellowships. 

This is a report from SAMHSA for a wide range of stakeholders (healthcare professionals, policymakers, patients, and families) that gives an overview of the three FDA-approved medications used to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) as well as other strategies and services needed to support recovery for people with OUD. Resources are provided at the end of this document. An executive summary of the report can be found here. 

This is a report from the Alliance for Addiction Payment Reform, a group advocating for employing a chronic disease model of treatment for substance use disorder, that gives an overview of the availability of digital technology options to improve treatment outcomes, such as telehealth, digital apps, virtual recovery supports, and wearables and monitoring devices. 

This is a guide from the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) which provides strategies for rural communities to mobilize community partnerships for public health programming, including local examples and lessons learned. 

This is a report which outlines a model state legislation to create an opioid litigation fund and council. The prospective fund would ensure that money allocated to states through opioid litigation settlements and judgements solely be used to address the opioid crisis. 

Mom Power is a website that connects mothers of those who are either experiencing addiction or have succumbed to their addiction with other mothers that share the same experience, providing family support, empowerment, and education.

This is a report from Facing Addiction that highlights the multiple pathways of recovery (e.g. SMART, LifeRing, 12-Step, Medication-Assisted Recovery, etc.) and is an accessible resource for individuals, families, and treatment professionals seeking information by outlining and describing different pathways to recovery, sharing personal experiences of individuals who have found recovery in different ways, and demonstrating the diversity of recovery.