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Posted 9/22/2020 (updated 3/29/2024)
The Post-Overdose Response (PORT) Toolkit was developed as a resource for North Carolina communities who are interested in creating a post-overdose response team (PORT) in their jurisdiction.
Posted 9/4/2020 (updated 3/29/2024)
Like all professions, the addictions treatment field is faced with the challenges of employee substance use and abuse and their impact on retention of quality staff. Because the addictions field employees a disproportionate number of individuals – by recent estimates close to half of the treatment workforce – in recovery, the field faces particular retention challenges. This toolkit provides meaningful and practical guidance to the problem of substance misuse among addictions professionals.
Posted 9/1/2020 (updated 3/29/2024)
This toolkit is intended to give prescribers a broad overview of medication utilization management techniques and describe ways that prescribers can facilitate patient access to needed medications. It focuses on prescribed medications that are filled by retail pharmacies; it does not cover the processes for methadone or specialty pharmacy products, such as injectable or implantable medications, all of which are commonly covered by a patient’s medical benefit rather than their pharmacy benefit.
Posted 6/12/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Mother & Baby Substance Exposure Toolkit Best Practices All Best Practices came as a part of the California Medication Assisted Treatment Expansion Project
Posted 4/24/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This webinar was hosted by the SAMHSA GAINS Center on January 14, 2020. The webinar slides and supplemental resources are now available.
Posted 2/10/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
ONDCP released a new tool to assist rural community leaders in building an effective local response to the crisis of addiction, the Rural Community Action Guide: Building Stronger, Healthy Drug-Free Rural Communities. The Guide also has a companion supplement, a listing of promising practices, included.
Posted 12/30/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)
Opioid overdose continues to be a major health problem. This toolkit will provide information on disorder facts, steps for First Responders, information for Prescribers, safety advice, and recovering from opioid overdose.
Posted 11/19/2019 (updated 3/28/2024)