This is a report from SAMHSA that provides education on opioid and other substance misuse, employing cost-effective prevention strategies and strategies to identify this misuse in the workplace, links to many helpful resources.
Treatment Resources
- Early Intervention
- Educational
- Employers
- Health Insurers
This website from the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine provides documents for different stakeholders impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, including guidance for youths and adults engaged in treatment, clinicians, and hospitals.
- COVID / Coronavirus related
This toolkit offers the support and resources that people with opioid use disorder may need as they navigate housing, employment, and treatment. Each section clearly outlines the rights these individuals hold, how to exercise them, and where to receive more support and resources. It aims to provide the building blocks needed to address discrimination associated with drug use or addiction.
- Educational
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
This is an academic paper that provides commentary on the impact of the opioid crisis on youth. The treatment system currently available to adolescents is described, shortfalls are identified, and recommendations are made to enable pediatricians to better manage substance use disorders in primary care.
- Early Intervention
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Community Coalitions
- Medical
This is an academic paper that summarizes over one hundred community plans to address the opioid crisis in the United States and Canada. These were found in both the peer-review and grey literature. According to this paper, most community opioid-related plans were provincially/state-funded, public health-led efforts that involved an average of seven partners, with law enforcement, healthcare, and public health sectors commonly represented in partnerships.
- Educational
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Criminal Justice
- Harm Reduction Specialists
- Hospitals
- Law Enforcement
- Medical
- Pharmacies
- Policymakers
This is an academic paper that explored the support and attitudes of emergency department (ED) personnel in Nevada towards using a mobile outreach team following the presentation of an opioid overdose to the ED. Findings suggest strong support and enthusiasm for this type of intervention. Giving ED personnel an approach to manage patients after a nonfatal overdose, through the use of reaching out to a mobile outreach team, is promising and will likely be utilized.
- Outreach
- Post-overdose response
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Harm Reduction Specialists
- Hospitals
- Medical
- Policymakers
This academic paper describes an opioid treatment program's (OTP) experience implementing a mobile medication unit (van) dispensing methadone for those with opioid use disorder (OUD). By making methadone available in patients' neighborhoods, the van increased access to medication treatment for OUD and was well received by patients who would otherwise have to travel daily to clinics at remote locations.
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Community Health Officials
This is an academic article that provides commentary on the unique opportunity of the coronavirus pandemic response to SUD that could reshape and update addiction treatment networks long-term, broken into seven pillars.
- COVID / Coronavirus related