Part of the University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center, this web page provides free downloadable curricula and class room exercises for teachers on the science of addiction.
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Implementing Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Rural Primary Care: Environmental Scan – Volume 2, Tools and Resources
Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has compiled this guide to tools and resources available to help create or expand medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD), particularly in rural areas. The tools are grouped into four categories: tools for prevention of OUD, tools to assist in training or educating individuals about MAT, tools for implementing MAT programs in office-based settings, and tools for preventing or responding to opioid overdose.
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The Benefits and Implementation Challenges of the First State-wide Comprehensive Medication for Addictions Program in a Unified Jail and Prison Setting
Source: Recovery Research Institute
This report provides a summary of a qualitative research study on inmate attitudes toward a medication assisted treatment (MAT) program for substance use disorder in the Rhode Island corrections system. Rhode Island implemented a MAT program in its correctional facilities statewide.
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Resources to Treat Substance Use Disorder in the Acute Care Setting
Source: California Bridge Project
This toolkit contains clinical materials targeting treatment of substance use disorder in the acute care setting. It includes resources for hospital clinicians to adopt including clinical protocols, information about medication assisted treatment and induction protocols, treating patients with justice involvement,
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Recovery Within Reach – Medication Assisted Treatment of Opioid Addiction Comes to Primary Care
Source: California Health Care Foundation
This 2016 report from the California Health Care Foundation reviews evidence related to buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder and provides guidance for clinicians interested in creating a medication assisted treatment (MAT) program in a primary care setting. Recommendations
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Medication-Assisted Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder: Pocket Guide
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
This pocket guide from SAMHSA is written for health care providers prescribing medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder. The guide includes a checklist of steps providers should take during the patient
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Guidance Document on Best Practices: Key Components for Delivering Community-Based Medication Assisted Treatment Services for Opioid Use Disorders in New Hampshire
Source: New Hampshire Health and Human Services Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services
This guide provides information providers need to implement a medication assisted treatment (MAT) program for patients with opioid use disorder in their community.
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Prescribing Opioids for Women of Reproductive Age: Information for Dentists
Source: National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center
This 4 page briefing paper provides information for dentists about prescribing opioids for women of reproductive age and women who are pregnant. It includes information about neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome and provides guidelines for prescribing opioids for dental care providers. A six page version is also available.
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Addiction 101
Source: Addiction Policy Forum
Addiction Policy Forum presents this free, on-line course titled Addiction 101. The course includes instruction on addiction and the brain, the risk and protection factors associated with an individual’s likelihood of developing a substance use disorder, a discussion of the importance of language and the need to reduce stigma around addiction, and a brief overview of treatment options and the need to match the intensity of treatment with an individual’s severity of substance use.
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California Bridge Resources
Source: California Bridge
The California Bridge Resources page is a searchable database of California Bridge’s evidence-based materials including clinical guides, protocols, toolkits, sample patient materials, and FAQs. All resources in the California Bridge database have been developed by interdisciplinary teams based on published evidence and expert opinion.