This is a report from the National Academy of State Health Policy that reviews common data sources that can help state leaders address key issues, such as preventing substance use disorders and diversion of controlled substances, supporting harm reduction, increasing treatment capacity and service delivery, and understanding the needs of vulnerable populations. Best practices are highlighted. 

This is an issue brief from the Pew Charitable Trusts targeting policymakers to maximize the chance of successful re-entry for people with substance use disorder leaving jails and prisons, with a focus on access to medications for opioid use disorder, health insurance coverage upon re-entry, workforce development of discharge planners, and integrated data infrastructure. 

This is an academic paper that examines how states are responding to the opioid crisis by using a survey of state health officials. As of 2015, prevalent state initiatives included educating the general public and specific stakeholders (e.g. pharmacists, physicians), cautious opioid prescribing, expanding medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), and expanding the availability of naloxone. 

This resource from Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) provides essential information about the opioid crisis, opioid use disorder (OUD), and neonatal abstinence syndrome. It includes relevant research, offers strategies for local and state governments and communities to respond to OUD in the context of pregnancy, early childhood, and public health, and highlights promising efforts underway in several states.

There is also a comprehensive list of additional resources at the end of the document. 

This is a report targeted towards community health centers that focuses on preventing the spread of infectious diseases related to intravenous drug use, institutional challenges, integration of opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment into primary care, and sharing information with the community.

This report is a literature review meant to address the gap in knowledge in terms of health inequities present in access to treatment for substance use disorder. The authors analyzed currently available sources on the topic and found that more attention to upstream factors of substance use disorder would have a positive impact on downstream factors including overdose. 

This paper outlines a study which aimed to identify the challenges to implementing peer recovery support services in the emergency department setting for individuals presenting with opioid use disorder. The authors selected relevant stakeholders with hospital related roles or expertise on peer support workers to interview for qualitative data collection. The results of this study identified several challenges at the system, hospital, and individual level. 

This is an academic paper that describes an adaptation of one of the only syringe service programs in Florida, the IDEA Exchange, to the coronavirus pandemic. The program location had to temporarily close but a telemedicine clinic, called TeleMOUD, was started to deliver buprenorphine to their clients, which was found to be a feasible, low-threshold access program. 

This is an academic paper that provides a case study on how a community used teleconferencing among stakeholders to implement a peer program to support those who come to the emergency department after experiencing a nonfatal overdose. And in-depth analysis of a learning collaborative is provided. 

This is an academic paper which describes the implications of a community-based non-profit's transition from in-person provision of low threshold medication assisted treatment (MAT) to a tele-health model. The organization also provided services such as harm reduction, counseling, and peer support to individuals with opioid use disorder. The study concludes that while retention rates of patients did drop, they remained excellent in comparison to in-person MAT care. 

A report by AHRQ on how to implement medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in rural primary care including education, barriers, payment, policy, and promising models in rural settings (Volume 1). 

From AHRQ (Volume 2), a resource that provides tools and strategies for rural primary care providers to: 1) prevent opioid use disorder (OUD); 2) educate on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD); 3) implement MOUD; and 4) prevent opioid overdose.