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Integrating Health Equity Into Overdose Prevention and Response: An Environmental Scan
This paper identifies current activities, gaps, and innovative strategies currently in use to address health equity and the social determinants of health (SDOH) within drug overdose prevention and response.
Coping Tips for Traumatic Events and Disasters
Emotional distress can happen before and after a disaster. This fact sheet offers coping strategies that can help when dealing with the aftermath of emergencies or disasters.
Overdose Spike Response Framework
This document has been produced to assist LHDs with guidance as they develop their context-specific response to overdose spikes as drug trends, overdose frequency, and public health and public safety resources will be unique to each local jurisdiction.
Harm Reduction's Road from Fringe to Federal Drug Policy
The Biden administration is embracing harm reduction, which seeks to keep drug users safe even as they continue using. In this episode, Tradeoffs explores how harm reduction has become more mainstream and what kind of impact we can expect it to have on the overdose crisis.
Congressional Hearings Focused on Mental Health and Substance Use Crises
In these videos, Congress was engaged in discussions on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health and substance use and the need for Mental Health First Aid, among other important topics.
Sample Social Media Messages
These are sample Facebook posts and media campaigns related to fentanyl-related deaths, MAT, and overdose prevention strategies.
Supporting Telehealth and Technology-assisted Services for People Who Use Drugs: A Resource Guide
This resource guide offers recommendations, tools and examples from the field to better implement telehealth and technology-assisted services to increase access to care and improve outcomes for people with SUD.
Guide: Helping a Loved One
This infographic is a guide on how to communicate effectively with family members with SUD and support them throughout their crisis.
New Medicaid Guidance for Community-based Mobile Crisis Services
This brief outlines the benefits of a mobile health care system to improve outreach and overdose prevention efforts.
Today, Explained: The new meth
This podcast with Sam Quiñones discusses the creation of a new synthetic substance that has become prevalent in recent years.
New Training Webpage and Messaging Products for ACEs, Overdose, and Suicide Prevention
This website provides resources for addressing the relationship between trauma, substance use disorder, and mental health.
Trauma-Informed Care for Opioid Use Disorder
This guide provides an understanding of the principles and practices of trauma-informed care is a helpful way to understand and connect with patients, and improve the experiences and outcomes of care for everyone involved.
Promoting Health Equity in Response to Drug Overdose
Racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by overdose-related deaths. This fact sheet discusses strategies for closing the gap in the quality of healthcare between different socioeconomic groups is vital to curbing the rate of overdose-related deaths.
4 Big Ideas – Applying learnings from COVID to the U.S. approach to the overdose crisis
This presentation compares our response to COVID-19 with our response to the overdose epidemic. It explains the need for innovation and progressive thinking to create change with how we approach substance use disorder as both a medical and community-based crisis.
Integrating prevention practices into the justice system
This presentation describes the systemic inequalities in the justice system, and obstacles faced by those with SUD who are incarcerated, particularly women.
Fentanyl Changes the Landscape
This presentation focuses on how the emergency of fentanyl has changed how we must approach the overdose epidemic, and how the differences between fentanyl and other opioids requires a new approach to treatment SUD.
Latino/a/x communities SUD issues; Implications for policy and practice
This discussion highlights the challenges and obstacles faced by the Latino/a/x communities when accessing overdose prevention and addiction services. It offers recommendations for creating a more equitable health care system.
Understanding the relationship between equity and SUD, and what we can learn from other country approaches
This presentation discusses the history of systemic inequalities in health care, and looks at examples of effective overdose prevention strategies in other countries.
Communities and Justice, the view from state Attorneys General
Utah's attorney general describes the role of an AG in the overdose prevention effort, and strategies for bringing different sectors together.
HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy – Prevention - Harm Reduction - Treatment - Recovery
This talk focused on the government's current strategies for addressing overdose prevention efforts, and the work that still needs to be done to address these needs.