This presentation focused on outreach efforts, and strategies for increasing accessibility for pregnant women in rural areas.

CA Bridge offers valuable insight into the current inequities faced by health care workers in emergency departments, and how to improve these conditions. Hear some of their incredible stories and tips on how to integrate health equity into your work environment.

DHCS created the Naloxone Distribution Project (NDP) to combat opioid overdose-related deaths throughout California. The NDP aims to address the opioid crisis by reducing opioid overdose deaths through the provision of free naloxone.

Author and journalist Sam Quiñones focuses on the devastation caused by methamphetamine and fentanyl in the United States, and what role community and other institutions can play.

This campaign provides stories and resources to help their community overcome high rates of substance use. Check out their resources on treatment options, how to get naloxone, and watch stories of community members in recovery.

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has released an action notice for providers that details best practices to consider and offers supportive resources to use when inheriting patients on opioid therapy due to facility closures and other causes.

Understanding mental health concerns and dual diagnosis can be challenging. This training helps you navigate complex behavioral health cases to improve your skills as a SUN.

This research from CA Bridge explains how low-threshold ED buprenorphine treatment implemented with a harm reduction approach and active navigation to outpatient addiction treatment was successful in achieving buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder in diverse California communities.

To help remediate the impacts of the rising rates of drugs adulterated or laced with fentanyl, the National Council Medical Director Institute (MDI) issued this new publication.

The Fall 2021 COPN Convening focused on overdose prevention strategies during disasters including fires, power outages, and the ongoing threat of COVID-19.

This article describes how California is taking an unusual approach to tackling the rising rates of fatal drug overdoses: paying drug users not to use drugs.

This toolkit 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.

This fact sheet provides information about the Emergent BioSolutions Free Goods Program, which is offering free units of NARCAN® to high schools, colleges, and universities.

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

This webpage provides information about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). It has information on risks, prevention, research, resources, etc. related to ACEs.

This website provides background information on ACEs as well as a test to determine the number of ACEs a person has. There is also research and resources linked.

This website provides information about specific types of trauma (including symptoms and behaviors associated with the trauma), resources for addressing the trauma, and information on treatments that work.

This website links the ACEs quiz and also information to decipher what the score you received means.

Follow up regularly with patients to determine whether opioids are meeting treatment goals and whether opioids can be reduced to lower dosage or discontinued. Use this guide to gain insight on the best way to taper patients with chronic pain.