Payers and providers play an important role in addressing the opioid crisis in our communities. This page highlights the most recently added resources specifically targeting healthcare providers, healthcare system employees, and individuals who manage private and public insurance plans. These resources, identified with blue tiles, include patient and provider education materials, clinical practice guidelines and practice protocols, and research and reports about insurance coverage and benefit design around addiction treatment and pain management.
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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
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 briefing paper from the National Judicial Opioid Task Force provides information intended to improve judicial personnel’s cultural competence when working with American Indian/Alaska Native individuals and communities. The information updates the Substance Abuse and Health Services
This 2018 toolkit from SAMHSA offers advice for creating opioid overdose prevention programs in local communities. Specific guidance is provided for first responders, prescribers, and patients and family members in Spanish.
This 2018 toolkit from SAMHSA offers advice for creating opioid overdose prevention programs in local communities. Specific guidance is provided for first responders, prescribers, and patients and family members.
This 2018 publication by the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists presents the concept of harm reduction and presents strategies for pharmacists to adopt harm reduction concepts in their practices.
This 2018 evaluation of a pilot program to develop integrated medication assisted treatment (MAT) programs at community health centers (CHCs) describes the lessons learned by 10 CHCs as they implemented new MAT programs at their clinics in California.
SAMHSA’s 2018 Treatment Improvement Protocol is a comprehensive discussion of medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder. This 322 page report includes sections targeted to healthcare providers and addiction treatment professionals, policy makers, and patients and their families.
This pocket guide from SAMHSA is written for health care providers prescribing medication assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder. The guide includes a checklist of steps providers should take during the patient