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Toolkits, guides, and other resources vetted by experts in overdose prevention.
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Drug Disposal: Drug Take Back Locations
This guideline provides an overview of medicine take back options and why they are the best way to safely dispose of most types of unneeded or expired prescription and over the counter medicines.
CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline Resources
These guidelines provide recommendations about the appropriate prescribing of prescription opioids and other treatment options to improve pain management and patient safety.
Prevention programs and tools
Toolkits, evidence-based approaches, media campaign materials and other helpful information for use in prevention efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
Innovation Landscape: Telehealth MAT
This brief provides an overview of the developing but nascent landscape of organizations offering telehealth MAT.
How To Pay For MAT Hospitalized Patients
This paper in CHCF's How to Pay for It series describes how MAT is reimbursed in these settings, addressing professional services, as well as hospital and pharmacy costs associated with the medication.
COPN Reducing Addiction Stigma Fact Sheet
This fact sheet addresses the stigmas that exist regarding addiction, and learn how to reduce these stigmas in your community.
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) in the Criminal Justice System: Brief Guidance to the States
Read through this brief to learn more about MAT in within the criminal justice system.
MAT in Jails Resource Sheet
Resources listed in the sheet will allow you to learn more about MAT in Jails, as well as information regarding objections, position statements and more.
Managing Pushback to Opioid Safety Strategies Resource Sheet
Please use this resource sheet to gather more knowledge and resources regarding pushback within your communities.
Tools and Resources for Health Departments and Syringe Services Programs
These resources may be helpful to health departments and other local partners engaged in planning, designing, and implementing syringe services programs (SSPs) in their jurisdictions.
CHOMP - Questions about your prescription of Narcan (naloxone)
This fact sheet gives an overview of Naloxone, and answers frequently asked questions about Naloxone.
COPN Naloxone Distribution Strategy Fact Sheet
Use this fact sheet to learn more about the basics of naloxone, who can carry it and how to use it.
Opioid Safety and How to Use Naloxone Fact Sheet
Use this fact sheet to learn more about using opioids safely, as well as using naloxone.
Harm Reduction Strategies Resource Sheet
Learn more about the principles of harm reduction and how to integrate this approach into the work that you do every day. Use this resource sheet to gain a better understanding and to see some great examples of harm reduction at work.
Reducing the Supply of Opioids
As overdose deaths continue to rise, we need to consider one of the biggest contributors to the epidemic: the large opioid supply. What steps can your community take to lower the opioid supply?
Example from the Field: How a Rural County Implemented Harm Reduction Strategies
This video shows an example of a rural coalition that successfully implemented harm reduction strategies.
Fentanyl Test Strips: Your Questions Answered Q & A
This document is a Q & A with Matt Curtis, Harm Reduction Specialist at CDPH. All of this information was covered during the COPN webinar, Fentanyl Test Strips: Your Questions Answered, on Tuesday, April 12, 2022.
With crisis comes opportunity: Unanticipated benefits resulting from pivots to take-home naloxone (THN) programs during the COVID-19 pandemic
This commentary describes how four rural and/or Appalachian communities quickly pivoted their existing THN (take home naloxone) programs to respond to community need.
Treating opioids in jails & prisons: Avoiding Overdose
This video describes the success of integrating strategic partnerships and prevention services into prison systems.