A toolkit from Rural Health Information Hub to help organizations implement, evaluate, and sustain prevention and treatment solutions to address substance use disorders. This resource also highlights existing promising programs and models to replicate. 

This is a manual entitled “RxStat” that is targeted to municipal and country leaders on how to best address drug use problems in their jurisdictions. It focuses on combining a public health and public safety approach and is derived from experience by the New York City's Department of Health and Human Hygiene.  

This toolkit from the SAFE Project provides a step-by-step process of how to organize, evaluate, and create change in your community to impact the opioid crisis. It provides guidance on finding the right team of community constituents, identifying priorities, and putting a plan into action using
examples from other communities around the country.

The SAMHSA Coronavirus resource page provides information on assisting individuals, providers, communities, and states across the country in meeting the challenges of the Covid pandemic. These include a list of virtual recovery support services. 

This is an academic paper which evaluates jail reentry interventions available to individuals with substance use disorder. There was a high amount of linkage to community treatment but low retention or adherence from targeted individuals. The authors concluded that more controlled trials and implementation studies should be done in order to examine core components of these interventions and develop new ways to implement them. 

This report discusses the evidence supporting the effectiveness of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) as a comprehensive approach, as well as for the implementation and effectiveness of the individual components of SBIRT for different behavioral health conditions.

This community-based tool consists of a two-day workshop that brings together stakeholders in the criminal justice, behavioral health, and recovery support systems to identify strengths, gaps, and priorities in their communities, and can strengthen the community response to the opioid crisis. 

Sequential Intercept Mapping (SIM) identifies the vital places in the system where best practices should be implemented, thereby increasing a person’s chances of recovery and decreasing recidivism. 

Shatterproof is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to reversing the addiction crisis in the United States, with an emphasis on reducing stigma and access to quality treatment. 

This is a report which outlines the extent and impact that addiction discrimination and stigma have on individuals with substance use disorder. The report includes data collected by the Shatterproof Addiction Stigma Index, a measurement tool designed to specifically measure addiction stigma and attitudes of the public on substance use. 

This is a coronavirus toolkit from Shatterproof for addiction treatment providers. There are links to finding specific information on telehealth/telemedicine, state policies on opioid treatment providers (OTPs) operation during the pandemic, and insurance guidance. 

This is a report from Shatterproof that shows the supply of healthcare professionals (HCP) waivered to prescribe buprenorphine on the the state and county level. Nationally, less than 6% of HCP are waivered to prescribe buprenorphine and a little more than 3% have publicly disclosed they they are prescribers. 

This is an academic paper that examines the social roots of the opioid crisis, creating a social determinants of health framework to better understand opioid-related harms across the drug-use continuum. Findings suggest that policymakers and public health leaders should develop partnerships with people who use drugs, incorporate harm reduction strategies, and reverse drug criminalization policies.