Patients and their caregivers need access to high quality, evidence-based information to help make the best decisions about their care and the care of their loved ones. This page highlights the most recently added resources specifically designed to help patients, families, and caregivers make informed decisions. These resources, identified with green tiles, include educational materials, information about non-opioid pain management, and treatment for opioid use disorder and other addictions.
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In 2018, the Arizona Legislature passed the Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act. This one page information sheet for patients in Spanish explains how the legislation protects chronic pain patients who use opioids to treat their pain. The document clarifies that the act does not limit prescription fills
This guide for parents and caregivers provides advice on how to prevent youth from abusing alcohol and drugs in their lives. It includes advice for how to help youth resist pressure and reduce stress, how to talk to youth about drug use, how to recognize warning signs of substance use, and how to build a family prevention plan.
This one minute video from the Arizona Department of Health Services shows how to identify an opioid overdose and how to administer naloxone to reverse the overdose.
Arizona has had a statewide Task Force on Preventing Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Other Drugs since 2005. This is the website for the task force which includes information about the risks of substance use during pregnancy and some resources and contact information.
This website is for the Arizona Angel Initiative, a police assisted addiction recovery program where law enforcement officers help connect individuals with substance use disorder connect to treatment.
This is the website for the Arizona enhanced opioid surveillance data project. It provides real time data on a variety of opioid topics including overdose, use of naloxone, neonatal withdrawal syndrome (or neonatal abstinence syndrome), and reports based on age, gender, and geographic location.
This 4 minute video from the Arizona Department of Health Services features a man who speaks about his personal history of addiction and being saved from an overdose by naloxone. The video includes a brief training on how to evaluate someone for an opioid overdose and how to administer
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
This website is the homepage for the Arizona Department of Health Services’s Opioid Epidemic initiatives. It includes real time reporting of statewide opioid data and links to Department initiatives and resources. Many of the materials produced by these efforts are included in the
This fact sheet lists the signs and symptoms that might indicate a youth has developed a prescription drug misuse problem. It includes specific information about opioid misuse, depressant (anti-anxiety medication and sedatives) misuse, and stimulant misuse along with information about