This guide is for men who have experienced childhood abuse and are in treatment for or recovery from a substance use disorder. The guide explains how the effects of childhood abuse can lead to the abuse of drugs or alcohol and provides help for managing the strong emotions and symptoms that might result from childhood trauma. Continue reading
Resource Tag: Treatment
Financing Recovery Support Services: Review and Analysis of Funding Recovery Support Services and Policy Recommendations
This 2010 report provides information about sources of funding for recovery support services in addiction treatment. Authors analyzed available federal and state funding streams for their requirements and highlighted 18 state examples of creative ways of funding recovery support services. The report concludes with Continue reading
Addressing the Specific Behavioral Health Needs of Men: Quick Guide for Clinicians
This summary of a Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) serves as a guide for providers on the specific behavioral health needs of men with substance use disorders. Continue reading
Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative
The Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative (PAARI) helps police departments create non-arrest pathways to substance use disorder treatment and recovery like the ANGEL program in Gloucester, Massachusetts. PAARI works with over 400 police departments in 32 states and helps communities customize Continue reading
Operation HOPE: Heroin-Opiate Prevention Effort
This is the website for the Scarborough, Maine police department’s Operation HOPE program where people with opioid use disorder can ask the police department for help and department staff will assist them in getting treatment. The website includes program policies, a list of frequently asked questions, and numerous videos. Continue reading
Gloucester Police Department ANGEL Program
This is the website for the Gloucester, Massachusetts Police Department’s ANGEL program where people with substance use disorder can ask the police department for help and department staff will assist them in getting treatment. People will not be arrested, jailed or charged with a crime. The website includes links to the program’s official policy as well as letters of support from area law enforcement and other organizations. Continue reading
Responding to the Prescription Opioid Crisis
This 2017 report from the Association for Community Affiliated Plans describes innovative practices designed to address opioid misuse and treat opioid use disorder (OUD) implemented in 5 Medicaid managed care organizations across the country. The practices focus on prevention and detection of misuse of Continue reading
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives – Full Report
From this website, the National Academies of Medicine 2019 report “Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives” can be downloaded for free. Also available are a press release, executive summaries of the report’s conclusions and highlights, and a social media toolkit for dissemination. Continue reading
Continuing Care: A Parent’s Guide to Your Teen’s Recovery from Substance Abuse
This Interactive website for parents and caregivers of children and youth with substance use disorder focuses on how to support children and youth after acute treatment in the recovery or continuing care phase. A downloadable PDF version is also available. Continue reading
Strategies to Increase the Capacity for Substance Use Disorder Treatment
This report prepared by AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) lists strategies insurance plans and other stakeholders can use to increase the capacity for substance use disorder treatment in our communities. Continue reading