This Treatment Improvement Protocol from SAMHSA focuses on the needs of men receiving treatment for substance use disorders and provides guidance to providers on how gender-specific strategies may improve treatment outcomes.
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Guidance Document for Supporting Women in Co-ed Settings
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Most substance use disorder treatment is provided in settings serving both women and men even though there may be gender differences in how they handle treatment and in the goals they prioritize for their recovery. This guide presents expert advice on how to support women, including transgender women and
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Resilience Annotated Bibliography
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
This 2013 report includes an analysis of 67 journal articles on the concept of resiliency and its relationship to substance use disorders and behavioral health conditions. A brief summary of all 67 articles is also included.
Patients & Caregivers
The Next Step Toward a Better Life
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
This patient guide details what happens after completion of withdrawal management/detoxification with advice for how to sustain sobriety in the first 30 days after withdrawal management and how to sustain recovery in the long term. Provides specific strategies patients can use to avoid return to use and sustain their new path.
Patients & Caregivers
Helping Yourself Heal: A Recovering Man’s Guide to Coping with the Effects of Childhood Abuse
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
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.
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Financing Recovery Support Services: Review and Analysis of Funding Recovery Support Services and Policy Recommendations
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
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
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Addressing the Specific Behavioral Health Needs of Men: Quick Guide for Clinicians
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
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.
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Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative
Source: 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
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Operation HOPE: Heroin-Opiate Prevention Effort
Source: Scarborough Maine Police Department
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.
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Gloucester Police Department ANGEL Program
Source: Gloucester Police Department
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.