This is a toolkit from SAMHSA that provides guidance on implementing prevention strategies through the Strategic Prevention Framework, which focuses on assessment, capacity, planning, implementation, and evaluation to understand and address substance misuse and related complex behavioral health problems facing states and communities.

This is a primer and toolkit from RTI International which helps to develop, implement, and evaluate an overdose education and naloxone distribution program in a jail setting. Stakeholder collaboration and logistics are discussed in detail, and previously implemented program models and existing protocols are highlighted. 

A toolkit for provider organizations working to improve opioid safety. The toolkit summarizes best practices and contains links to resources and tools that a provider can adapt in building or testing changes for an organization and its patients.

A toolkit from the City of Boston's Office of Recovery Services, directed towards a city-level response to substance misuse, that summarizes multifaceted strategies. It offers a guide for how to talk about substance use, an overview of the treatment system, and types of partnerships and policies that may strengthen a city’s response to this crisis.

This toolkit from the CDC helps healthcare professionals, especially those in primary care, better understand substances use disorders and how to implement treatment and harm reduction strategies to address them. 

This guide provides practical approaches to prevent addiction-related stigma. These range from simple efforts, such as writing letters to the editor, to more complex efforts, such as implementing community-based stigma prevention campaigns.

A toolkit that guides population size estimation of people who inject drugs (PWID), with specific emphasis on applying this method in rural communities. This toolkit details the capture-recapture strategy for population size estimation of PWID and discusses how to interpret and operationalize this data. 

This is a toolkit from the Arizona Department of Health Services that educates prescribers and redefines pain and addiction as interlinked, complex, public health processes, requiring interprofessional care and involvement of the community and health-based systems. Multiple stakeholder perspectives were included in creating this curriculum and it appears in the peer-reviewed literature here and here. 

This is a toolkit from Wells Insurance to help employers understand and deal with the opioid crisis, create a healthier and more productive workforce, and reduce costs. An appendix includes educational materials, communications with employees, sample policies, and form templates. 

This is a toolkit that addresses stigma among moms and babies so that they can get the support that they need. Women with substance use disorders, along with other stigmatizing conditions (e.g. HIV, mental health diagnoses) are the targeted population. The toolkit describes what stigma is and provides many testimonies on how it manifests in society. 

This toolkit provides information on harm reduction services that include strategies to design and deliver harm reduction programs to the Boston community, as well ways to engage community members and potential users of these services. These strategies aim to educate the Boston community on how to use and engage with harm reduction services, and are likely applicable to other cities. 

This is an academic paper that describes and provides access to an online tool that assists stakeholders in estimating the costs associated with implementing and sustaining a medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) program in jails and prisons. 

This is a free training tailored to first responders that educates participants on harm reduction and treatment and how first responders can play a vital role in delivering these services to their community. 

A two-page resource from the CDC on calculating total daily dose of opioids for safer dosage.

A two-page resource from the CMS with opioid oral morphine milligram equivalent (MME) conversion factors for a wide range of prescription opioids.

This toolkit from Faces and Voices of Recovery guides a community in holding a listening forum to better understand how to help people struggling with substance use issues and in recovery. The forums can help identify information about negative attitudes and discriminatory policy barriers facing people seeking or in addiction recovery, other barriers to long-term recovery, and recovery-supportive policies and programs

This is an online tool from the Association of Recovery in Higher Education that estimates the impact and cost-effectiveness of collegiate recovery programs that support college students in recovery. 

This online tool from the University of Texas School of Public Health estimates the impact and cost-effectiveness of providing peer support services and naloxone distribution at recovery community organizations. 

This toolkit from the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center helps stakeholders select and implement prevention programs in their communities. It describes successful program models for both substance use prevention and overdose prevention. 

This is a toolkit from SAMHSA that provides guidance to employers related to counseling, referrals, and follow-up services, such as alternatives to prescription drugs, workplace drug misuse and relapse prevention, dangers of combined drug use, screenings, and evaluations before returning to work.