Arizona Pain and Addiction Curriculum

Deans and curriculum representatives from all 18 schools educating health care providers in Arizona came together to create this non-proprietary curriculum on pain and addiction that is available for use in other states. Links to project websites and the curriculum and faculty guide for download are available below.

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Arizona Rethink Rx Abuse Public Health Campaign

The Arizona Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith and Family created a toolkit for communities to launch a public health information campaign to reduce prescription drug abuse. The toolkit includes targeted educational materials and information about implementing harm reduction and safe medication disposal programs as well as information for patients, caregivers, and parents to help them better understand the risks of prescription medications and how to reduce those risks.

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Arizona’s 50 State Review on Opioid Policy

The Arizona Department of Health Services prepared this 2017 review of opioid related policies in all 50 states to assist decision-makers in evaluating potential policy actions. The review includes appendices which address topics such as prescribing regulations and guidelines, data collection, state substance abuse task forces, and state emergency response declarations. The reports are available for download below.

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Arizona Action Plans, General Legislation and Key Reports

This collection includes the state’s Opioid Action Plan, reports from task forces and meetings, information about the Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act, Arizona’s applications for the State Opioid Response Grant and Opioid State Targeted Response Grant, and links to key websites.

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State of Arizona Resources

This featured collection highlights a number of initiatives Arizona has undertaken to address the opioid crisis in the state.

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Rethink Rx Abuse Strategy 5: Enhance Assessment and Referral to Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Part of Arizona’s Rethink Rx Abuse public health information campaign, these materials are intended to help communities improve patient assessment and referral to substance use disorder treatment. Includes information about medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT), fact sheets on identifying opioid use disorder (OUD) or people at risk for developing OUD, and a guide to finding behavioral health treatment services.

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Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care

Addiction researchers and treatment providers have increasingly advocated moving away from an acute-care model of treatment to embracing Recovery Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC) which emphasize person-centered and self-directed pathways to recovery with an emphasis on building on the strengths and resilience of individuals, families and communities.

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Understanding Recovery

This collection includes resources that define and explain recovery from many perspectives. Within this collection, users will find links to the following information:

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Recovery: Community Programs

Recovery organizations have increasingly been focused on engaging their communities to create recovery supportive environments. This collection features the following resources highlighting community programs:

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