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Posted 6/9/2021 (updated 4/10/2024)
Background: Racial/ethnic disparities in the use of opioids to treat pain disorders have been previously reported in the emergency department (ED). Further research is needed to better evaluate the impact race/ethnicity may have on the use of opioids in adolescents for the management of pain disorders in the ED.
Posted 4/28/2021 (updated 4/10/2024)
The National CLAS Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by establishing a blueprint for health and health care organizations to:
Principal Standard: Provide effective, equitable, understandable, and respectful quality care and services that are responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices, preferred languages, health literacy, and other communication needs.
Posted 4/7/2021 (updated 4/5/2024)
Your First 48 Toolkit is a Durham County resource guide for successful reentry within 48 hours after incarceration and beyond by connecting you to resources and service providers that help overcome the barriers to a successful reentry. Returning to your community with a criminal record can be a difficult task due to the collateral consequence of incarceration that limits access to employment, housing, healthcare, and education.
Your First 48 Toolkit promotes social and economic independence through relationship building, strong community involvement, education and public support. The Toolkit will help you foresee barriers to a successful reentry and identify likely solutions by informing you of who to connect with and what questions to ask.
Posted 3/24/2021 (updated 4/5/2024)
Program planning and service delivery are most impactful when voices and perspectives from the populations being served are included in the process. This 1-page resource outlines the Latinx TA support available to RCORP grantees including examples of RCORP grant activities where it may be beneficial to engage Latinx TA support.
Posted 9/22/2021 (updated 4/3/2024)
Opioid overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States, reaching 49 860 in 2019, the highest ever recorded.1 Non-Hispanic White individuals were disproportionately affected in the wave of prescription opioid deaths at the turn of the century; however, recent increases driven by heroin and fentanyl have been greater for non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic individuals.
Objectives. To examine trends in opioid overdose deaths by race/ethnicity from 2018 to 2019 across 67 HEALing Communities Study (HCS) communities in Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts, and Ohio.
Posted 11/4/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
This brief seeks to further the limited research, policy, and practice on substance use coercion and to increase awareness about this issue among relevant stakeholders.
Posted 11/4/2020 (updated 4/3/2024)
Thank you for your dedication to supporting all survivors. The goal of this guide is to assist programs and advocates in supporting survivors who use substances by providing practical strategies embedded within an accessible, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed (ACRTI) approach.
Posted 7/13/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Two videos for Spanish speakers on using Naloxone properly.
Posted 7/13/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
The Facts About Buprenorphine for Treatment of Opioid Addiction is available in many languages, including Spanish.
Posted 7/6/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
This toolkit was produced by the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center, in partnership with the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis, and in collaboration with the Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub).