This brief from 2022 provides information on substance use and suicide risk among LGBTQ youth and provides recommendations based on the data on how to support LGBTQ youth.

SAMHSA compiled a list of resources for individuals and providers that includes national survey reports, agency and federal initiatives, and related behavioral health resources.

According to the Recovery Research Institute, it is estimated that 30 percent of LGBTQ+ individuals face some form of addiction, compared with 9 percent of the general population. However, there is a lack of LGBTQ+ recovery resources. Faces & Voices of Recovery have created a list of LBGTQ+ focused recovery resources.

The new Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology (DOSE) dashboard is an interactive data visualization tool that displays current nonfatal drug overdose-related ED and hospital discharge data. DOSE data can be used to compare US nonfatal overdose trends for any of the four drug overdose types (i.e., all drugs, all opioids, heroin, and all stimulants); by participating state and by county (county-level data are only available for nonfatal all drug overdose ED visits); and by sex and age group.

The California Youth Opioid Response (YOR California) is pleased to announce 43 grant awards for the third round of State Opioid Response (SOR) funding of $12 million, subsequent to a statewide RFA process, and over 70 applications.

YOR California seeks to strengthen capacity and access to prevention, treatment, and recovery services, as well as access points to Medication-Assisted Treatment, for youth (ages 12-24) and their families. This opportunity is also designed to foster the creation, coordination and strengthening of local level multi-system networks and to encourage the development of new partnerships between agencies that touch youth.

YOR California is a joint effort by the California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions and Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. and funded by the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), Community Services Division, Federal Grants Branch that supports funding community-based organizations throughout California, whose efforts spanning the continuum of prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery services for youth.

This website is an great example of how local coalitions in California can communicate how to access naloxone, treatment, and other resources locally.

This campaign was created by the Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness. It is an example of how a community has developed an awareness campaign discussing fentanyl, how to access naloxone and how and where to find local treatment options.

This webpage overviews the Contra Costa County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Pilot Project. It is the first in the country to launch a pilot project for paramedics to provide medication for addiction treatment (MAT) directly to patients in withdrawal from opioid use disorder. Lead by Dr. Gene Hern, the EMS Project Director of the CA Bridge program at the Public Health Institute, Dr. David Goldstein, of the Contra Costa County Emergency Medical Services Agency, and Dr. Ori Tzvieli, the Medical Director of Contra Costa County Public Health, the project has started serving patients in the region.

Santa Barbara Opioid Safety Coalition's website is a great example of how to utilize a website to disseminate information on naloxone, treatment services, data, resources, and more.

You can utilize this user guide to understand and learn the ODMAP platform and community user application.

This fact sheet provides an overview to show how the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program can help communities respond effectively to overdoses.

This brief highlights the Alliance for Prevention and Wellness’s (APW) use of Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) data to target a broad range of substance use prevention and education activities to ZIP codes with the highest rate of overdoses.

This document is to assist community leaders, local and regional organizers, non-profit groups, law enforcement, public health, and members of the public in understanding and navigating effective strategies to prevent opioid overdose in their communities.

In this article, it provides insight into the large impact of the California Harm Reduction Initiative across the state of California.

Through rigorous, data-based analysis, researchers and analysts can add to our understanding of societal shortcomings and point toward evidence-based actions to address them. But when data are collected and communicated carelessly, data analysis and data visualizations have an outsized capacity to mislead, misrepresent, and harm communities that already experience inequity and discrimination. This guide and its associated toolkits focus on how data practitioners can approach their work through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

For many data communicators, presenting data disaggregated by race or ethnicity can pose a tricky problem. It’s not uncommon to place the data for each group in a single graph, but this presentation can lead the reader to compare the performance of each group to the best performing group, creating a “horse race effect.” As a result, a reader may negatively perceive the experiences of one group relative to another.

This comprehensive guide provides information and recommendations regarding general health, safer use practices, common viral, fungal, parasitic, and other injection-related infections, overdose and overamp, tapering, withdrawal, medications for opioid use disorder, and seeking medical care.

This brief helps collaborative teams formally assess existing policies to determine whether, and to what extent, they contribute to disproportionate and disparate outcomes for the families being served.

This website provides clinically supported advice on substance use management for healthcare providers