This is a report from the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care that summarizes the Patient and Family Advisor (PFA) Summit on the opioid crisis, held in 2018. Characteristics of meaningful partnerships with patients and families are discussed and several promising partnerships are highlighted. Recommendations are made to strengthen these partnerships.
Treatment Resources
- Educational
- Family Support
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Medical
- Policymakers
The Partnership to End Addiction, which recently merged with the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, is a national nonprofit committed to supporting the whole family addressing substance use and addiction and provides helpful resources for prevention and treatment.
This is a website providing tools, information, and other resources to help communities develop and implement post-overdose response teams.
- Post-overdose response
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- First Responders
- Law Enforcement
- Policymakers
This is a report from Optum that describes how peer support services can be employed across the continuum of care for behavioral health, with a special focus on programs already implemented and their results.
- Recovery coaching
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Health Insurers
- Hospitals
- Medical
This report discusses the role of peer support workers and models of care that are available to assist individuals who are experiencing a crisis. This document highlights specific models of peer support services and features key resources.
- Crisis intervention
- Recovery coaching
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
- Hospitals
- Medical
This is an interactive toolkit from the city of Philadelphia that supports behavioral health agencies in the process of integrating peer providers into their services settings. Tools in this kit will help agencies to recruit, retain, and effectively deploy people in recovery in a variety of new peer support roles.
- Recovery coaching
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Criminal Justice
- First Responders
- Hospitals
- Law Enforcement
- Medical
- Policymakers
This is a report from the National Council for Behavioral Health that highlights how recovery community organizations and programs are employing peer support workers in the emergency department after opioid overdoses. Several program models are discussed in this document.
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Health Insurers
- Hospitals
- Medical
- Policymakers
This is a report from ASAM, Faces and Voices of Recovery, and Community Catalyst that aims to identify what outcomes matter most to people with substance use disorders (SUD) to ensure their voices guide future research and action to improve the system. Nationally, the researchers surveyed nearly 900 people along with hosting multiple focus groups, with the ultimate goal of improving treatment outcomes by focusing research, policymaking, and service delivery on what people with SUD want and need.
- Educational
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
This document provides jail and prison administrators, program managers, medical staff in correctional settings, and reentry staff with a performance management framework to monitor medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in correctional settings. Twelve core performance measures are described, including percent of inmates with opioid use disorder, the percentage of these initiated into MAT, rate of treatment retention after release, rearrest rate, and post-release overdose death rate.
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Criminal Justice
- Law Enforcement
This is a report from the Center for Public Safety Initiatives that provides a catalog and summaries of programs, approaches, and interventions to respond to the opioid crisis. These entries include responses that are local, national, and international.
- Educational
- Community Coalitions
- Policymakers
This is a report from the American Medical Association which gives an overview on actions that the medical community has taken in combating the opioid epidemic, as well as data surrounding its impacts. The report also gives recommendations on further steps the medical community can take to decrease the number of opioid related mortalities.
- Educational
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Hospitals
- Medical
This is a toolkit designed to hep tribal justice system practitioners create or enhance reentry programs for American Indians and Alaska Natives returning from jail or prison. It also offers guidance for practitioners who are currently working in a reentry program.
- Educational
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Community Health Officials
- Criminal Justice
- Law Enforcement
- Policymakers