This is an academic paper that describes community meetings held in a rural area of Oklahoma to address to the opioid crisis. Surveys showed that holding group discussions and listening to experts may increase engagement of the community in a response, with priorities being access to treatment and youth-based prevention. 

This is an academic paper that assessed community readiness in counties in North Carolina and its relationship to county-level opioid-related mortality and morbidity. Community readiness has been linked to collective action from communities to implement comprehensive responses to the public health issue. Findings indicate that counties with higher opioid-related mortality also had higher community readiness. 

This is a report from the National Prevention Science Coalition that highlights the importance of prevention strategies in addressing the opioid crisis and outlines a national blueprint to guide public health policies and prevention services to help individuals, their families, and communities. Community-based and school-based prevention interventions are discussed that can increase protective factors, decrease risk factors, and address adverse childhood experiences. 

This is a research report from the Urban Institute that provides a scope of the opioid crisis and its far-reaching impacts. Next, criminal justice responses are discussed and specific programs are highlighted. 

This is a report which takes an in-depth look at the problems courts and citizens alike are facing regarding opioid use disorder. The authors have established a framework for courts to utilize to address the disease of addiction from the judiciary's unique perspective. 

This report by the Workers Compensation Research Institute highlights higher rates of opioid dispensing and chronic opioid dispensing among some groups of injured workers in rural counties. Workers employed in mining and construction industries were more likely than workers in other fields to receive opioids for pain and were more likely to receive opioids on a longer-term basis and at higher doses. 

This is a report from the New York State Association of Counties that highlights the different programs that have been implemented to address the opioid crisis across counties in New York. Most of the county responses were led through the actions of coalitions and task forces. 

This is a regularly updated issue brief from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime that offers a preliminary assessment of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on illicit drug markets, with the aim of alerting communities about how the drug supply and drug use could be affected in both the short- and long-term. 

This is a collection of a wide range of COVID-19 resources from the Curated Library of Opioid Use for Decision-Makers (CLOUD) across the continuum of care: prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery. 

This is a report from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) that provides recommendations on how state agencies can work together to prevent and treat substance use disorder, including engaging with state offices of rural health.

This document offers examples from eight states and emphasizes state efforts related to opioid misuse and opioid use disorder.

This is a report which offers a checklist of methods that health insurers and purchasers can utilize to promote safe and affordable care while also emphasizing opioid safety and lowering opioid related deaths. The four primary areas of focus for this checklist are prevention, management, treatment, and mortality prevention. 

This is a report from the Institute for Excellence in Government (author Wiseman) that presents several case studies that use data-driven approaches to address the opioid crisis. Themes in the cases examined were that collaboration is key, leadership matters, and continuous experimentation is required as the opioid crisis continues to evolve.