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 the Rooms is an online social network for individuals in recovery across the globe. The site requires users to create a log-in to access live online recovery meetings as well as other resources, although all services are free and confidential.
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 website provides information about Medicaid’s Maternal Opioid Misuse (MOM) Model pilot, which seeks to improve the quality and coordination of care for pregnant and postpartum women with opioid use disorder. The pilot prog;ram was launched in 2019 with a 5 year project period. This website provides up
This website provides resources such as toolkits, documents, and education courses for psychiatric pharmacists and advanced practice clinical pharmacists as they seek to further their knowledge and training on this topic.
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 is the home of the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic.. The goal of the collaborative is to improve collaboration among the many individuals and professions working to address the crisis, and website users can access the collaborative’s reports
This website, BASIS, from the Cambridge Health Alliance’s Division on Addiction, provides weekly summaries of addiction science research for patients and their caregivers, policy makers, and clinicians. Users can subscribe to a weekly update of research summaries. BASIS stands for The Brief Addiction Science Information Source.
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.
This briefing paper from the National Judicial Opioid Task Force provides an overview of parent partner programs, where parents facing child welfare or dependency proceedings are paired with a peer adviser who helps them understand and navigate the process. Parent partner programs in Washington, Iowa,