The ACEs Aware initiative is a first-in-the nation effort to screen patients for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to help improve and save lives. Use this website to learn more how ACEs Aware strives to create a better world for our children, families, and communities by working together across sectors to prevent and address the impact of ACEs and toxic stress.

OD2A-funded jurisdictions work to monitor and evaluate their surveillance and prevention efforts. The evaluation of these efforts is essential to ensure program fidelity, efficacy, and efficiency. This webpage provides resources aimed at making evaluation and change easier.

An overview of supervised consumption services (SCS), including the benefits and barriers.

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.

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.

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.

Use this site to discover stories about opioid use all over the country.

This brief provides strategies for managing pushback to medication assisted treatment (MAT).

Use this locator to find Buprenorphine treatment.

This fact sheet discusses MAT as an evidence-based approach to treat opioid use disorders by combining the use of medications with behavioral therapy.

This is a guide about treating chronic pain safely and without the use of opioids.

This training provides instruction on how to treat chronic pain without opioids.

These are rules and regulations about drug disposal.

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.

These guidelines provide recommendations about the appropriate prescribing of prescription opioids and other treatment options to improve pain management and patient safety.

Toolkits, evidence-based approaches, media campaign materials and other helpful information for use in prevention efforts to combat the opioid crisis.

This brief provides an overview of the developing but nascent landscape of organizations offering telehealth MAT.

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.

This fact sheet addresses the stigmas that exist regarding addiction, and learn how to reduce these stigmas in your community.