Subject: Opioids
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorder in Jails and Prisons: A Planning and Implementation Toolkit
To reduce the risk of opioid overdose and recidivism and to better serve incarcerated individuals with opioid use disorder, the National Council, in partnership with Vital Strategies and faculty from Johns Hopkins University, developed a new resource guide titled Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Jails and Prisons: A Planning and Implementation Toolkit.
Free MAT Trainings for Prescribers
The overarching goal of PCSS is to provide the most effective evidence-based clinical practices in preventing OUD through proper opioid prescribing practices, identifying patients with OUD, and the treatment of opioid use disorder.
Buprenorphine Practitioner Locator
Find practitioners authorized to treat opioid dependency with buprenorphine by state.
Offering Naloxone to Patients
Here you will find information you need to start prescribing and dispensing naloxone rescue kits, including some useful resources containing further information about this life-saving medicine.
Local Opioid Prevention and Response: A Primer for Local Health Departments
Local Opioid Prevention and Response: A Primer for Local Health Departments serves to inform local health departments about the domestic opioid epidemic and share success stories from LHDs currently engaged in opioid-related efforts.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Safe Opioid Disposal – Remove the Risk Outreach Toolkit
Remove the Risk Toolkit raises awareness of the serious dangers of keeping unused opioid pain medication in the home and provides information about the safe disposal of these medicines.
COVID-19 Harm Reduction Toolkit
The COVID-19 Harm Reduction Toolkit, created by Higher Ground Harm Reduction, Reynolds Health Strategies and global health organization Vital Strategies, provides informative fact sheets, tips and guidance for people who use drugs, engage in sex work, those who are unhoused, and the stakeholders who work with these communities.
Understanding Drug Overdoses and Deaths
Drug overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States. Learn more about the opioid overdose epidemic.
The American Opioid Epidemic in Special Populations: Five Examples
This manuscript identifies segments of the population that are disproportionately affected by the opioid epidemic.
States Allowing Telehealth Prescriptions for Opioid Use Disorder
A Resource from the National Academy for State Health Policy.