This is a toolkit from the Rutgers School of Pharmacy that provides educational information on prevention strategies for opioid misuse, opioid use disorder, and opioid overdoses, specifically targeted towards pharmacist and prescribers. There are also supplementary materials that can be used for interventions by a wide array of stakeholders. 

This is a manual entitled “RxStat” that is targeted to municipal and country leaders on how to best address drug use problems in their jurisdictions. It focuses on combining a public health and public safety approach and is derived from experience by the New York City's Department of Health and Human Hygiene.  

This toolkit from the SAFE Project provides a step-by-step process of how to organize, evaluate, and create change in your community to impact the opioid crisis. It provides guidance on finding the right team of community constituents, identifying priorities, and putting a plan into action using
examples from other communities around the country.

This is a report from the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids that provides an introduction to the issue of safe drug disposal programs. It is written to help community officials and organizers design a safe drug disposal program for their community, along with giving an overview of the regulations for such programs. 

This report discusses the evidence supporting the effectiveness of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) as a comprehensive approach, as well as for the implementation and effectiveness of the individual components of SBIRT for different behavioral health conditions.

This community-based tool consists of a two-day workshop that brings together stakeholders in the criminal justice, behavioral health, and recovery support systems to identify strengths, gaps, and priorities in their communities, and can strengthen the community response to the opioid crisis. 

Sequential Intercept Mapping (SIM) identifies the vital places in the system where best practices should be implemented, thereby increasing a person’s chances of recovery and decreasing recidivism. 

This is an academic paper that examines the social roots of the opioid crisis, creating a social determinants of health framework to better understand opioid-related harms across the drug-use continuum. Findings suggest that policymakers and public health leaders should develop partnerships with people who use drugs, incorporate harm reduction strategies, and reverse drug criminalization policies. 

This is a statistical brief from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) that describes how counties that have high versus low population rates of opioid-related hospital use differ with regard to social determinants of health (SDOH). The SDOH studied include social, educational, and economic characteristics; physical infrastructure; and healthcare characteristics. Results show that counties with high population rates of opioid-related hospital use have a meaningfully different SDOH profile. 

This is a toolkit from the Rural Health Information Hub that compiles evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations implementing programs to address social determinants of health in rural communities across the United States. The toolkit is broken up into seven modules. 

This is a toolkit from the American Hospital Association (AHA) that provides a report and related resources on eight different domains of social determinants of health: Food, housing, transportation, health behaviors, violence, education, social support, and employment. 

This is an academic paper that gives an overview of studies that have examined the association between socioeconomic characteristics and opioid-related overdose deaths. Nearly all reviewed studies found a connection between a socioeconomic variable and overdose, supporting the Deaths of Despair hypothesis. 

This is a report that describes how State Offices of Rural Health (SORH) are aiding their rural communities in responding to the addiction crisis, while meeting the expectations of SORH grants. Initiatives across the nation are highlighted, with a focus on collection and dissemination of information, coordination of rural health activities, and technical assistance.