Subject: Overdose Prevention
DC Engage Drug User Health Resource Guide
This resource guide lists organizations in Washington, DC that offer assistance in areas including housing, drug user health, safer sex and STI testing, food, clothing, legal, health care, and social support.
Safer Use Practices for Drug User Health
This fact sheet provides general safety tips for drug user heath.
Framing Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Acute Pain: Developing the Evidence
This report recommends two frameworks—an analytic framework and an evidence evaluation framework—that medical professional societies, health care organizations, and state, national, and local agencies could use to develop CPGs for prescribing opioids to manage acute pain.
CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
This guideline provides recommendations for primary care clinicians who are prescribing opioids for chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care.
CDC Guidelines at a Glance
CDC guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain.
Sample Patient Agreement Form
This resource includes two sample patient agreement forms that can be used with patients who are beginning long-term treatment with opioid analgesics or other controlled substances.
SAMHSA’s Medication-Assisted Treatment for Substance Use Disorders Opioid Treatment Program Directory
Select a state and find all of the contact information of the opioid treatment centers located within the selected state.
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.