This “Addictionary” created by the Recovery Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital lists language patients, providers, and policy makers can use that is not stigmatizing and creates a supportive treatment environment for substance use disorders.
This advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General address the drug naloxone and how patients, caregivers, and providers can assure that naloxone is available and people know how to use it to prevent opioid overdoses.
This website describes the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Model Medicaid is piloting to improve behavioral health care for children and youth with the goals of improving child outcomes, reducing inpatient hospitalizations and out-of-home placements, and creating alternative funding streams for these services.
This website includes all of the pain treatment guidelines prepared by the Oregon Pain Guidance commission including guidelines on acute pain, chronic pain, low back pain, alternatives to pharmacological treatment of pain, treating pain in children and senior citizens, pain control for cancer and palliative care, opioid
This website presents information about persistent or chronic pain for patients with the end goal of empowering patients to manage and relieve their own pain. Based out of Australia, the website is a co-creation of a pain scientist, a pain physiotherapist, and a professional communicator.
Part of the Oregon Pain Management Commission’s Pain Care Toolbox, this webpage provides links to screening and assessment tools health care providers may use when treating patient’s pain conditions.
This provider training module produced by the Oregon Pain Management Commission aims to improve health care provider’s ability to treat patients with chronic pain with a focus on non-pharmacological treatment options and best practices in communicating with patients about their pain and treatment plan.
This Arizona Department of Health Services website includes information about the state’s various initiatives to encourage naloxone distribution and administration to reverse opioid overdoses. It includes links to documents, patient brochures, sample policies and training programs for law
The Arizona State Public Health Laboratory has created a program to screen blood samples from individuals with a suspected opioid overdose in order to better understand which opioids are responsible for causing overdoses in the state. Health care providers and institutions can request a courier to pick up samples which are then tested for the qualitative identification of opioids, fentanyl analogs, benzodiazepines, stimulants, cannabinoids, and synthetic cannabinoids. This is the Arizona Department of Health Services website for the laboratory testing program.
A one and a half hour webinar on best practices in expanding access to buprenorphine in primary care practices from the California Health Care Foundation. Funding Source: California Health Care Foundation