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.

The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) released a Rental Assistance Toolkit to ensure that state and local entities are aware of the many programs available to provide emergency rental assistance.

This study poses questions for what will happen in the future regarding the trends of infectious diseases and discusses the transition from injected drugs to smoking fentanyl.

OPI research scientists have tracked the rise in overdose deaths in California over the past five years. This data brief demonstrates that the opioid epidemic remains a significant, complex, and evolving public health issue.

John Oliver explains how the Sackler family has been handling lawsuits related to the opioid crisis, how hard they’ve been fighting to defend their name, and why you should judge the situation for yourself.

This brief recommends policies to end the systemic and structural racism that continue to prevent Black Americans from achieving optimal health.

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.

This article provides five ways to strategically present data regarding childhood trauma. These five tips for presenting numbers aim to advance efforts to reduce adversity, promote resilience and improve health outcomes.

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.

This measurement guide draws from on-the-ground work with an array of local overdose prevention coalitions affiliated with the Center for Health Leadership and Practice’s overdose prevention networks and is organized around the sequence in which coalitions need to work with data.

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.

The Monterey County Prescribe Safe Initiative is an organization that wants to help physicians with safe prescribing. Read through some of the solutions that have been working in Monterey County.

Patients with pain should receive treatment that provides the greatest benefit. Opioids are not the first-line therapy for chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Evidence suggests that nonopioid treatments, including nonopioid medications and nonpharmacological therapies, can provide relief to those suffering from chronic pain, and are safer. Read through this fact sheet to get a better understanding of how to effectively approach non-opioid solutions to chronic pain.

Health plans can influence the behavior of providers and patients, prevent overprescribing, ensure appropriate treatment is available — and save lives. Use this four part guide to change the way in which the epidemic is impacting your community.

MAT has been proven to save lives, improve quality of life, and lower medical costs, but remains inaccessible to almost 90% of the people it could help. This paper outlines concrete strategies that public and private plans can implement in their efforts to ensure that their members have access to MAT when and where they need it.

Safe Med LA, the opioid coalition for LA county created a 10-page recommendation on safe prescribing, broken down into six main focus areas: (1) Safe Opioid Prescribing; (2) Avoid Escalating Opioid Doses; (3) Avoid Dangerous Medication Combinations ; (4) Safe Tapering Practices; (5) Concurrent Drug and Alcohol Use; (6) Opioid Use Disorder and Medications for Addiction Treatment. Use this recommendation in conjunction with the Safe Opioid Prescribing Recommendations Template to customize the guidelines for your own communities and prescribers.