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The Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID‐19) has prompted adaptations and restructuring of almost every institution in the nation. While these efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID‐19 affect everyone, patients treated with buprenorphine/naloxone for an opioid use disorder (OUD) will feel these disruptions more acutely, especially in rural communities.
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With the coronavirus pandemic sweeping across the globe, everyone is being urged to isolate at home and distance themselves from one another. But what happens if you’re in recovery for substance use disorder and isolating yourself is detrimental to your health? We discuss how recovery centers are providing care remotely and how those in recovery are coping.
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New research suggests a revamped, “common sense” approach to treating newborns suffering opioid withdrawal—gauging whether the baby can eat, sleep and be consoled within 10 minutes before administering drugs to wean them off exposure--may safely reduce the length of hospitalization they need.
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The Brandeis Opioid Resource Connector serves community stakeholders working to combat the opioid epidemic. It is a product of the Brandeis Opioid Policy Research Collaborative.
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The Campus Drug Prevention podcast Prevention Profiles: Take Five was launched in January 2018. Each podcast is posted monthly and features interviews with individuals at the federal, national, state, and local levels, based around five questions related to drug abuse prevention among college students.
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The Strengthening Families framework is a research-informed approach to increase family strengths, enhance child development, and reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect. They work to engage families, programs, and communities in building the five protective factors.
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The Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions is committed to advancing the implementation of high-quality treatment for individuals with co-occurring physical and mental health conditions, including substance use disorders. This resource guide is directed at integrated health solutions.
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The Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions is committed to advancing the implementation of high-quality treatment for individuals with co-occurring physical and mental health conditions, including substance use disorders. View their upcoming events.
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Reports, recorded webinars and events for rural providers and health, behavioral health and substance use disorder professionals (uvmcora.org)
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The Central NH Community Opioid Response Program aims to ensure comprehensive, coordinated, and easily accessible prevention, treatment, and recovery services for those impacted by opioid use disorders in the Central NH Region. Made possible by the 3-year Rural Community Opioid Response Program (RCORP) grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
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View educational videos from The Central NH Community Opioid Response Program, an organization that aims to ensure comprehensive, coordinated, and easily accessible prevention, treatment, and recovery services for those impacted by opioid use disorders in the Central NH Region.
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Resources to help support parents and teachers navigating virtual social-emotional learning for grades K-8.
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Child Welfare Information Gateway promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children, youth, and families by connecting child welfare, adoption, and related professionals as well as the public to information, resources, and tools covering topics on child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out-of-home care, adoption, and more.
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Comprehensive strategic plan to address the state's addiction crisis.
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NH MAT guidance, clinical supports, evidence-based practices, technical assitance, billing & coding and professional development resources.
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FORE is a national grantmaking organization focused on ending the nation’s opioid crisis. They are deeply committed to enhancing access to care for all Americans experiencing an opioid use disorder and enabling communities to invest in prevention.
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Many people use fentanyl, whether by choice or by accident. With overdose-related deaths continuing to rise, how do we keep people safe? This first session in our webinar series on fentanyl will focus on harm reduction strategies and treatment options for people who use fentanyl. We will hear from a harm reduction expert and a clinician on key strategies and opportunities to center people who use drugs and save lives.
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Syringe service programs (SSPs) distribute sterile syringes, safer drug use supplies, and education to people who inject drugs. These harm reduction programs are proven to reduce HIV and HCV infection rates by about 50%.
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The Hospital System Addictions Care CoP promotes the development of interdisciplinary hospital systems that identify, engage, treat, and coordinate services for people with a substance use disorder (SUD) to improve patient and hospital outcomes. This approach uses any “reachable moment” to enhance patient-centered care and hospital outcomes by providing medication assisted treatment and other interventions and linking patients to SUD care and harm reduction support after discharge.
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Current and past webinar recordings. The Hospital System Addictions Care CoP promotes the development of interdisciplinary hospital systems that identify, engage, treat, and coordinate services for people with a substance use disorder (SUD) to improve patient and hospital outcomes.
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The Problem with the Current High Potency THC Marijuana from the Perspective of an Addiction Psychiatrist
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Telehealth can address COVID-19 and other epidemic situations by limiting exposure to infection for vulnerable populations and health care workers. Telehealth can also expand the reach of resources to communities that have limited access to needed services.
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The National Council for Behavioral Health is the unifying voice of America’s health care organizations that deliver mental health and addictions treatment and services. Together with our 3,381 member organizations serving over 10 million adults, children and families living with mental illnesses and addictions, the National Council is committed to all Americans having access to comprehensive, high-quality care that affords every opportunity for recovery.
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From the Recovery Month Toolkit.
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The nationally-adopted Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support integrate and operationalize the Principles of Family Support Practice and the Strengthening Families Framework and its research-based evidence-informed 5 Protective Factors.
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While substance use generally begins during the adolescent years, there are known biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors that contribute to the risk that begin accumulating as early as the prenatal period. This creates opportunities to intervene very early in an individual’s life.
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Lessons, activities, and drug facts to educate teens about the effects and consequences of drug use.
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Guidance and growth resources developed with a shared perspective to support the New England prevention workforce. Each area showcases a topic and strong science-based tools to assist new prevention professionals in getting orientated or those preparing for advanced careers.
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Although substance use disorders are chronic and treatable medical conditions, studies show people with these disorders still face discrimination and stigma (a set of negative attitudes and stereotypes) that can impact their health and well-being in numerous ways. This stigma also affects people who use drugs who do not have a substance use disorder.
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The North Country's Area Health Education Center: Ensures an adequately trained workforce exists in rural New Hampshire by providing continuing medical education and other training programs for all levels of North Country healthcare providers and to expand opportunities for North Country young people to learn about and pursue careers in the health professions.
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Prevention Wellness, LLC is an education small business whose mission is: To protect children, youth and young adults across the country and world from harmful substance use and substance use risk factors while also promoting physically active lifestyles necessary for positive youth development.
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The purpose of the Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network is to improve implementation and delivery of effective substance misuse prevention interventions, and provide training and technical assistance services to the substance use prevention field.
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PCSS is a program funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) created in response to the opioid overdose epidemic to train primary care providers in the evidence-based prevention and treatment of opioid use disorders (OUD) and treatment of chronic pain. The project is geared toward primary care providers who wish to treat OUD.
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The PCSS Implementation project within PCSS provides implementation technical assistance (TA) to healthcare organizations and providers for the use and/or expansion of SUD services, including MAT with a focus on opioid use disorder (OUD).
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The Recovery Research Institute is a leading nonprofit research institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, dedicated to the advancement of addiction treatment and recovery.
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If we want addiction destigmatized, we need a language that's unified. The words we use matter. Caution needs to be taken, especially when the disorders concerned are heavily stigmatized as substance use disorders are.
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The goal of the Leadership Academy is to develop and cultivate future leaders from college campuses across the nation. The Leadership Academy is an academic year-long fellowship for any college student who is passionate about the intersection of collegiate recovery, leadership, and service to others. It is open to students who are in recovery, as well as recovery allies.
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SAMHSA recognizes the need for governments, states, territories, tribes, crisis centers, and partners to speak with one voice to ensure there is a clear understanding about what 988 is and how it will work. We encourage you to use these communication outreach materials and build upon them with your community coalitions to meet the needs of your specific audiences.
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The evidence base is strong for the use of naloxone to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Distributing naloxone and teaching people to use it is an effective means of preventing deaths among people who misuse heroin, fentanyl, prescription opioids, and other opioids.
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On-demand behvioral health and substance use disorder training modules.
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Opioid use in pregnancy has escalated dramatically in recent years, paralleling the epidemic observed in the general population. To combat the opioid epidemic, all health care providers need to take an active role. Pregnancy provides an important opportunity to identify and treat women with substance use disorders.
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Asynchronous interactive, educational modules from the Community First Responder program: pain management, MOUD, SUD outreach, motivational interviewing and more.
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This paper focuses on the effects of SUDs on family and social problems and emphasizes the need for clients in treatment to address these domains in their ongoing recovery. Individual, group, and family interventions to address these issues for clients with SUDs and their families are reviewed.
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The purpose of this study is to examine empirical work intended to determine the impact of perceived social stigma and self-stigma on the process of recovering from SUDs with the assistance of formal treatment services.
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Education Materials: The Program for Substance Use and Stigma of Addiction is committed to helping healthcare providers and the general community effectively identify and respond to substance use disorders. They offer educational materials surrounding substance use disorders and stigma, including books, toolkits, video modules, and more.
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