Patients and their caregivers need access to high quality, evidence-based information to help make the best decisions about their care and the care of their loved ones. This page highlights the most recently added resources specifically designed to help patients, families, and caregivers make informed decisions. These resources, identified with green tiles, include educational materials, information about non-opioid pain management, and treatment for opioid use disorder and other addictions.
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This 2 page guide summarizes effective strategies to increase patient access to medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). Strategies for state program administrators, clinicians and health systems, and individuals with OUD are presented.
This 2 page information guide explains the medication assisted treatment (MAT) options for treating opioid use disorder. Intended for patients and their caregivers, it includes information on MAT options, how they work, how to access the medications,, and additional information for patients to consider when selecting a MAT option with their health care provider. Funding Source: Consumer and Prescriber Education Grant Program, National Association of Attorney Generals
This website provides information for patients and caregivers about what is chronic pain and how patients and their caregivers can optimally manage their pain to improve quality of life. Funding Source: Arizona Department of Health Services
This Spanish language guide from Partnership at DrugFree.org provides parents and caregivers with specific advice on how to talk to kids to prevent drug and alcohol misuse. It includes age appropriate scripts for starting conversations, guidance on what to say to teens about prescription drugs, advice on how to address
This website contains the collected works of noted addiction and recovery researcher William L. White. It contains more than 300 articles, 20+ recovery tools, book and book chapters, and transcripts of more than 100 interviews with addiction treatment and recovery leaders. This repository has material on such topics as recovery advocacy, recovery oriented systems of care, and recovery management. Funding Source: Unknown
This is the main website for the Washington State Department of Health’s opioid prescribing rules. Includes information for patients and caregivers as well as health care providers and also includes information about the state’s prescription monitoring program. 12 alternative language versions of the materials are available, including
The Commonwealth Fund annually compiles information from all states measuring access to care, quality of care, health outcomes, and health disparities. This interactive website allows users to view the data by topic or state. The subject matter of the website is broad, with some measures directly addressing opioid related issues such as drug overdose deaths and access to behavioral health treatment. Funding Source: The Commonwealth Fund
This website was developed by stakeholders in Oregon to help patients and their caregivers Heal Safely from injury and trauma. It includes patient stories and resources for patients to develop a pain management plan and understand the risks of prescription medications. The website was developed with tribal and Latino participation and has a option to display materials and videos in Spanish.
This is the website for Shatterproof, the nation’s largest nonprofit advocacy group with a mission of ending the disease of addiction. Shatterproof educates policymakers, providers and the public about addiction and works to improve substance use disorder treatment and end stigma around addiction.
This is the website for the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health. Provides reports on research into addiction and treatment, funding notices, publications, and other reports related to opioids and other addictive substances. Funding Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health