Prevention Resources

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This is a policy brief from the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice that reviews the evidence linking trauma and adverse childhood experiences to opioid use disorder. It also provides examples of trauma-informed prevention and treatment strategies, and describes innovative approaches being used by communities to address the opioid crisis.

Response Approach
  • Early Intervention
  • Educational
Stakeholders
  • Addiction Treatment Providers
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Medical
  • Policymakers

This is a report from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) that summarizes a study finding that increased availability of buprenorphine treatment predicted reductions in certain types of child maltreatment caseloads in 25 states. Implications to the child welfare system are discussed.  

Response Approach
  • Family Support
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Stakeholders
  • Community Health Officials
  • Criminal Justice
  • Policymakers

This is a toolkit from National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center that provides a wide range of information on the opioid crisis, what tribal communities are doing to address the issue, and access to documents that other communities can use to implement a response. 

 

Response Approach
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Overdose prevention
  • Recovery coaching
Stakeholders
  • Addiction Treatment Providers
  • Advocates / Peers
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Policymakers

This is a report outlining a four pronged strategy for overdose prevention with the goal of strengthening prevention efforts and increasing access to the full continuum of care and services for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). The four target areas in this strategy are primary prevention, harm reduction, evidence-based treatment, and recovery support. In addition this strategy is aimed at all populations with OUD in an effort to be more inclusive. 

Response Approach
  • Cautious Opioid Prescribing
  • Comprehensive services
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Overdose prevention
Stakeholders
  • Addiction Treatment Providers
  • Advocates / Peers
  • Harm Reduction Specialists
  • Hospitals
  • Medical
  • Policymakers

This is an academic paper that provides a review on what is known about the links between suicide and overdoses, with a focus on pathways through opioid use, issues of intent, risk factors, prevention strategies, and unresolved issues. Untreated and undertreated pain leading to suicide is also explored. 

Response Approach
  • Cautious Opioid Prescribing
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Overdose prevention
Stakeholders
  • Addiction Treatment Providers
  • Advocates / Peers
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Harm Reduction Specialists
  • Hospitals
  • Medical
  • Policymakers
Peer-reviewed Article

This is a report from the National Academy of Social Insurance that provides employers and insurers with a better understanding of the relationships among workers' compensation programs, opioids, and workplace overdoses. Stakeholders can use this information to improve the safety of workplaces as wells as decrease the economic impact of opioid use.  

Response Approach
  • Cautious Opioid Prescribing
  • Educational
Stakeholders
  • Community Health Officials
  • Employers
  • Health Insurers

This is a toolkit from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network that examines the complex intersection of trauma and substance use. Information is tailored to both mental health and addiction treatment professionals. Recommendations for evidence-based treatment for youth and increasing engagement in this population are made. 

Response Approach
  • Early Intervention
  • Educational
Stakeholders
  • Addiction Treatment Providers
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Hospitals
  • Medical

This paper explores the reasons that nonmedical prescription opioid misuse is higher in rural areas compared with urban areas. The authors hypothesize that reasons are related to increased sales of prescription opioids in rural areas, out-migration of upwardly mobile young adults, tighter social networks, and socioeconomic distress. 

Response Approach
  • Cautious Opioid Prescribing
  • Educational
Stakeholders
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Medical
  • Policymakers
Peer-reviewed Article

This is a website that provides a link to a report on criminal justice and law enforcement approaches to the opioid crisis. Examples of legal strategies, supply interdictions, educational interventions, and surveillance techniques are discussed. 

Response Approach
  • Educational
Stakeholders
  • Criminal Justice
  • Law Enforcement
  • Policymakers

This is a report from the CDC that discusses the difference between rural and urban areas in the types of opioids involved in drug overdose deaths, deaths involving psychostimulants, geographic differences, and trends over the time period 1999-2019. 

Response Approach
  • Educational
Stakeholders
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Policymakers

The Opioid Misuse Resource Map provides a list of interventions at the community level to address the opioid crisis by each state. The list shows a number of opioid-related projects that have been compiled from USDA partners and agencies throughout the US. 

Stakeholders
  • Advocates / Peers
  • Community Coalitions
  • Community Health Officials
  • Harm Reduction Specialists
  • Policymakers

This report describes strategies adopted by state Medicaid programs in using data to address aspects of the opioid crisis, such as identifying outlier clinicians for opioid prescribing and patients with problematic opioid related behavior. The report describes specific programs implemented in several states. 

Response Approach
  • Cautious Opioid Prescribing
Stakeholders
  • Health Insurers
  • Hospitals
  • Medical
  • Policymakers