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Posted 1/22/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Faces & Voices of Recovery is dedicated to organizing and mobilizing the over 23 million Americans in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs, our families, friends and allies into recovery community organizations and networks, to promote the right and resources to recover through advocacy, education and demonstrating the power and proof of long-term recovery.
Posted 1/22/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
How Science Has Revolutionized the Understanding of Drug Addiction. PDF version of this resource is available in English and Spanish.
Posted 1/24/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
Get Naloxone Now is an online resource to train people to respond effectively to an opioid overdose emergency.
Posted 3/19/2020 (updated 1/30/2023)
To help local leaders respond to this epidemic, USDA has worked to build infrastructure for prevention, treatment and recovery, facilitate partnerships, and drive innovation in rural communities.
Posted 5/22/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
To identify Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool tems independently associated with the decision to use pharmacologic therapy and to simplify the FNAST while minimizing loss of information for the treatment decision.
Posted 5/22/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
Report details information and guidance for addressing substance use issues encountered during home visiting. Discusses substance use issues and the way home visiting can address those issues while supporting families. Features a number of questions and answers and includes discussion regarding home visiting in rural areas.
Posted 9/4/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
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 10/21/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
This webinar described the unique role of peer support specialists in the CDC-funded pilot project Reducing Overdose After Release from Incarceration (ROAR). The ROAR pilot combines provision of medication for opioid use disorder with support from Oregon Certified Recovery Mentors (CRMs) to reduce overdose risk among women released from prison.
Posted 11/25/2020 (updated 9/14/2022)
This Peer Integration Toolkit from Office of Addiction Services And Supports State of New York (OASAS) uses a stages of change framework to present guidance information. To effectively implement change, the organization will need to evaluate their current stage of change about the integration of peer services (pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action or wellness).
Posted 12/2/2020 (updated 9/2/2021)
Developed for the Puerto Rico Department of Health, this toolkit discusses how to screen pregnant women for substance use, screen infants for prenatal exposure to substances, recognize the signs of NAS, utilize validated screening tools, understand the importance of provider education, and engage pregnant women in the process of treatment and referral.