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.
Recovery Resources
- Educational
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Overdose prevention
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Harm Reduction Specialists
- Policymakers
This is a toolkit from the Rural Health Information Hub that compiles evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations implementing programs to address social determinants of health in rural communities across the United States. The toolkit is broken up into seven modules.
- Educational
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Policymakers
This is a toolkit from the American Hospital Association (AHA) that provides a report and related resources on eight different domains of social determinants of health: Food, housing, transportation, health behaviors, violence, education, social support, and employment.
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Health Insurers
- Hospitals
- Medical
- Policymakers
This is a report that describes how State Offices of Rural Health (SORH) are aiding their rural communities in responding to the addiction crisis, while meeting the expectations of SORH grants. Initiatives across the nation are highlighted, with a focus on collection and dissemination of information, coordination of rural health activities, and technical assistance.
- Comprehensive services
- Educational
- Recovery coaching
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Policymakers
This website provides information on grants focused on improving the criminal justice system, with many opioid-related funding opportunities.
- Community Coalitions
- Criminal Justice
- Law Enforcement
- Policymakers
This report from SAMHSA provides a directory that summarizes information on peer recovery coaching in every state. The information provided covers certification requirements, hourly pay rate, general screening criteria, financing for recovery coaching services, and settings in which peer recovery coaches are found in each state.
- Educational
- Recovery coaching
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Policymakers
This report recommends that states implement measures to track treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD) as a means to optimize utilization of resources. It identifies eight core measures including OUD diagnoses, provider availability, treatment initiation, use of medications for opioid use disorder, and post treatment outcomes.
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Health Insurers
This is a report from the Mental Health Commission of Canada that summarizes an 18-month project on opioid use disorder (OUD) stigma and gives a scoping literature review as well as the results of key informant interviews and focus groups involving first responders, persons with lived experience of substance and/or opioid use, policymakers, and other service providers.
- Educational
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Criminal Justice
- Employers
- First Responders
- Harm Reduction Specialists
- Health Insurers
- Hospitals
- Law Enforcement
- Medical
- Pharmacies
- Policymakers
This study develops a typology of the stigma related to opioid use, showing how multiple dimensions of stigma continue to fundamentally hinder the response to the crisis.
The paper explains how public stigma is driven by stereotypes about people with opioid use disorders, such as their perceived dangerousness or perceived moral failings, which translate into negative attitudes toward people with opioid use disorders. Additionally, it explains that enacted stigma describes the behavioral manifestations of public stigma, including discrimination and social distancing. Finally, the study emphasizes that public and enacted stigma, in turn, lead to the delivery of suboptimal care and undermine access to treatment and harm reduction services.
- Cautious Opioid Prescribing
- Educational
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Criminal Justice
- First Responders
- Harm Reduction Specialists
- Law Enforcement
- Medical
- Pharmacies
- Policymakers
This in an annual summit sponsored by National Academy of Medicine and Shatterproof that brings together stakeholders to discuss the negative impact of stigma on people with substance use disorders and elevate action-oriented strategies to address and eliminate the harms caused by stigma. More information from the 2021 summit can be found here and the 2022 summit can be found here.
- Educational
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Harm Reduction Specialists
This is an academic paper that provides a commentary on the role that stigma plays in substance use disorder, how it manifests, and the evidence base for combating it.
- Educational
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Criminal Justice
- Employers
- First Responders
- Harm Reduction Specialists
- Health Insurers
- Hospitals
- Law Enforcement
- Medical
- Pharmacies
- Policymakers
The Rockefeller Institute's Stories from Sullivan series combines aggregate data analysis with on-the-ground research in affected communities to provide insight into what the opioid problem looks like in this rural county, how the community has responded, and what kinds of policies have the best chances of making a difference.
- Educational
- Family Support
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Harm Reduction Specialists
- Law Enforcement
- Medical
- Policymakers