The Partnership to End Addiction, which recently merged with the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, is a national nonprofit committed to supporting the whole family addressing substance use and addiction and provides helpful resources for prevention and treatment. 

This is a website providing tools, information, and other resources to help communities develop and implement post-overdose response teams. 

Recovery coaches, trained peers with a history of substance use disorder (SUD) who are formally embedded in the health care team, may be a cost-effective approach to support outpatient management of SUD treatment. This study evaluated the integration of peer recovery coaches in general medical settings, finding reductions in acute care utilization and increases in outpatient treatment utilization among patients connected to a recovery coach. 

Emergency departments (EDs) are increasingly hiring peers—people with lived experiences of addiction and recovery—to work with patients in the ED who have opioid use disorders (OUDs). This narrative review synthesizes the existing evidence on how to develop and implement peer programs for OUD in the ED setting, describing the key activities peers can undertake in the ED, requirements of the peer role, and best practices for peer supervision and hiring.

This is a report from Optum that describes how peer support services can be employed across the continuum of care for behavioral health, with a special focus on programs already implemented and their results. 

This report discusses the role of peer support workers and models of care that are available to assist individuals who are experiencing a crisis. This document highlights specific models of peer support services and features key resources.

This is an interactive toolkit from the city of Philadelphia that supports behavioral health agencies in the process of integrating peer providers into their services settings. Tools in this kit will help agencies to recruit, retain, and effectively deploy people in recovery in a variety of new peer support roles.

This is a report from the National Council for Behavioral Health that highlights how recovery community organizations and programs are employing peer support workers in the emergency department after opioid overdoses. Several program models are discussed in this document. 

This is a report from ASAM, Faces and Voices of Recovery, and Community Catalyst that aims to identify what outcomes matter most to people with substance use disorders (SUD) to ensure their voices guide future research and action to improve the system. Nationally, the researchers surveyed nearly 900 people along with hosting multiple focus groups, with the ultimate goal of improving treatment outcomes by focusing research, policymaking, and service delivery on what people with SUD want and need.

This document provides jail and prison administrators, program managers, medical staff in correctional settings, and reentry staff with a performance management framework to monitor medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in correctional settings.  Twelve core performance measures are described, including percent of inmates with opioid use disorder, the percentage of these initiated into MAT, rate of treatment retention after release, rearrest rate, and post-release overdose death rate. 

This is a report from the Center for Public Safety Initiatives that provides a catalog and summaries of programs, approaches, and interventions to respond to the opioid crisis. These entries include responses that are local, national, and international. 

This is a report from the American Medical Association which gives an overview on actions that the medical community has taken in combating the opioid epidemic, as well as data surrounding its impacts. The report also gives recommendations on further steps the medical community can take to decrease the number of opioid related mortalities.