This 3 page Spanish language patient guide from the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine provides about maintaining substance use disorder treatment during the Covid-19 public health emergency. Continue reading
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Guidance: Youth Engaged in Substance Use Treatment
This 3 page patient guide provides information specifically for youth on navigating substance use disorder SUD treatment during the Covid-19 public health emergency. Continue reading
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Guidance: Patients Engaged in Substance Use Treatment
This 3 page patient guide addresses maintaining substance use disorder treatment during the Covid-19 public health emergency from the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine. Continue reading
California Hub-and-Spoke Medication Assisted Treatment Expansion Program: Year 1 Evaluation Report
This program evaluation looks at California’s implementation of a hub-and-spoke treatment system for opioid use disorder (OUD) during the program’s first year (August 2017 to July 2018). Continue reading
Accelerating Opioid Safety: Ambulatory Care Toolkit
This 2018 toolkit from the California Quality Collaborative and Smart Care California provides step-by-step guidance for provider organizations to change provider behavior and culture around opioids. The toolkit is organized around 4 key strategies: Continue reading
Addiction Treatment in California County Jails
This 11 minute video features the stories of individuals who achieved recovery from addiction through receiving medication-assisted treatment (MAT) while in jail. The video includes testimonials from patients as well as interviews with sheriff,s health care providers, and corrections staff and explains how the programs work in several California counties. Continue reading
Medication-Assisted Treatment Inside Correctional Facilities
This guide from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and Bureau of Justice Assistance provides resources for preventing and addressing medication diversion for medication assisted treatment (MAT) programs in correctional facilities. Continue reading
Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Jails and Prisons: A Planning & Implementation Toolkit
This comprehensive tool-kit guides correctional staff in creating and managing medication assisted treatment programs for individuals with opioid use disorder in jails and prisons. Created by the National Council on Behavioral Health and Vital Strategies, Continue reading
Integrating Medications for Opioid Use Disorder into a 12-step Treatment Program
Traditional 12-step, abstinence based substance use disorder treatment programs have generally rejected the use of medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD). The Recovery Research Institute provides a plain-language summary of research that looked at whether it was possible to incorporate MAT into the treatment services offered by a leading 12-step oriented treatment facility. Continue reading
Medications for Opioids Use Disorder Save Lives
This 2 minute video accompanies the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s report Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives. Continue reading