Opioid addiction expert Dr. David Kan discusses the importance of building strategic partnerships when creating effective overdose prevention strategies.

HHS has released a report detailing trends of telehealth use in 2021, and how to make telehealth more accessible and equitable in the future.

The toolkit offers high-level strategies for integrating The ASAM Criteria into a state’s approach to SUD services, as well as potential pathways that states can pursue, implementation vehicles, state examples, and model legislative, regulatory, and contractual language from which states can draw.

This resource guide offers recommendations, tools and examples from the field to better implement telehealth and technology-assisted services to increase access to care and improve outcomes for people with SUD.

This brief outlines the benefits of a mobile health care system to improve outreach and overdose prevention efforts.

This guide provides an understanding of the principles and practices of trauma-informed care is a helpful way to understand and connect with patients, and improve the experiences and outcomes of care for everyone involved.

Racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by overdose-related deaths. This fact sheet discusses strategies for closing the gap in the quality of healthcare between different socioeconomic groups is vital to curbing the rate of overdose-related deaths.

This presentation compares our response to COVID-19 with our response to the overdose epidemic. It explains the need for innovation and progressive thinking to create change with how we approach substance use disorder as both a medical and community-based crisis.

This presentation focuses on how the emergency of fentanyl has changed how we must approach the overdose epidemic, and how the differences between fentanyl and other opioids requires a new approach to treatment SUD.

This presentation discusses the history of systemic inequalities in health care, and looks at examples of effective overdose prevention strategies in other countries.

This discussion described new ideas and strategies in overdose prevention from medical and community outreach perspectives.

This presentation discussed current issues in emergency room settings that prevent optimal treatment of overdoses, and strategies for improvement.

CA Bridge offers valuable insight into the current inequities faced by health care workers in emergency departments, and how to improve these conditions. Hear some of their incredible stories and tips on how to integrate health equity into your work environment.

The National Harm Reduction Coalition created a brief e-course on how the healthcare financing system works and how harm reduction programs can tap into opportunities for funding.

These are the findings from the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), released by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has released an action notice for providers that details best practices to consider and offers supportive resources to use when inheriting patients on opioid therapy due to facility closures and other causes.

This research from CA Bridge explains how low-threshold ED buprenorphine treatment implemented with a harm reduction approach and active navigation to outpatient addiction treatment was successful in achieving buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder in diverse California communities.

This brief recommends policies to end the systemic and structural racism that continue to prevent Black Americans from achieving optimal health.

Follow up regularly with patients to determine whether opioids are meeting treatment goals and whether opioids can be reduced to lower dosage or discontinued. Use this guide to gain insight on the best way to taper patients with chronic pain.

The Monterey County Prescribe Safe Initiative is an organization that wants to help physicians with safe prescribing. Read through some of the solutions that have been working in Monterey County.