This academic paper discusses a model of treating patients with substance use disorder (SUD) who are hospitalized. The authors performed a needs assessment and then convened academic and community partners, including a hospital, community SUD organizations, and Medicaid accountable care organizations, to design a care model for medically complex hospitalized patients with SUD.

This website provides vision, leadership, advocacy, and education to facilitate the growth and practice of deflection and pre-arrest diversion in the criminal-legal system, and contains a variety of resources and educational opportunities. 

This is a report from the Pew Institute that highlights the barriers to expanding access to buprenorphine and makes recommendations to state policymakers to overcome these barriers with a focus on increasing access and affordability, increasing retention in treatment, and addressing social determinants of health. 

This study sought to understand important changes in co-occurring opioid and nonopioid drug use (i.e., polysubstance use) within the opioid crisis in the United States. Past-month use of at least 1 nonopioid drug occurred in nearly all participants (> 90%) in this study.

This paper emphasizes that viewing opioid trends in a “silo” ignores the fact that polysubstance use is ubiquitous among those with opioid use disorder and that significant changes in polysubstance use should be monitored alongside opioid trends.

This is a toolkit developed by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services which gives communities strategies on how to establish a post overdose response team. This includes providing harm reduction strategies, naloxone, overdose prevention training, and overall ways to reduce overdose mortality. The toolkit provides four specific phases which explain how to design and implement the program and also make improvements. 

This toolkit offers guidance for primary care providers on how to integrate buprenorphine prescribing into their practices. The toolkit provides tips and practical steps for planning and implementing this treatment, as well as the general responsibilities and activities of prescribers for patients diagnosed with opioid use disorder. 

These are new guidelines issued by Health and Human Services that gives an exemption from certain statutory certification requirements for prescribing buprenorphine among physicians and non-physicians, thus relaxing waiver requirements and  increasing access to buprenorphine. 

This is an academic paper that gives an overview of best practices for buprenorphine dosing, follow-up care, and reducing implementation barriers in the emergency department. Different models are discussed, such as "hub and spoke" and "warm handoff" models. 

This is a federally-funded website from a collaboration of academic institutions that provides information on state laws relevant to the opioid crisis including laws on opioid prescribing, medications for opioid use disorder, naloxone, and syringe service programs.  

This is an academic paper that gives an overview of the regulations that were relaxed to increase access and engagement in medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) during the coronavirus pandemic, and the possibility for these new regulations to remain after the pandemic is over. 

This study surveyed US adults about the prevalence of alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems, whether they were resolved, and if so by what means, including assisted (treatment, medication) and unassisted resolution pathways.

The paper found that tens of millions of Americans have successfully resolved an AOD problem using a variety of traditional and non-traditional means. Its findings suggest a need for a broadening of the menu of self-change and community-based options that can facilitate and support long-term AOD problem resolution.

This is a report published by the Native Center for Behavioral Health and is supported by SAMHSA. It summarizes how Native American communities in several states implemented medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder initiatives while maintaining their culturally informed practices. Several success stories are highlighted.