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Toolkits, guides, and other resources vetted by experts in overdose prevention.
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Syringe Access Manual
This pragmatic and straightforward guide can serve as a valuable tool for new and established programs alike, offering practice suggestions and guidance in several areas.
Recovery Within Reach: Medication-Assisted Treatment of Opioid Addiction Comes to Primary Care
This paper explores several options for expanding access to MAT (specifically, buprenorphine) for those who are addicted to opioids, and provides recommendations for California clinics and primary care practices.
Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Training
This training will assist physicians and physician assistants (PAs) who wish to apply for a waiver to prescribe buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid use disorders.
Campaigns from Shatterproof, Truth, and the Crisis Next Door
Use this site to discover stories about opioid use all over the country.
Overcoming objections to MAT
This brief provides strategies for managing pushback to medication assisted treatment (MAT).
COPN MAT Strategy
This fact sheet discusses MAT as an evidence-based approach to treat opioid use disorders by combining the use of medications with behavioral therapy.
Safer prescribing guideline fact sheet
This is a guide about treating chronic pain safely and without the use of opioids.
Non-opioid treatment fact sheet and training module
This training provides instruction on how to treat chronic pain without opioids.
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.