This is a presentation by several collaborating organizations that describes the community response to the opioid crisis addressing upstream, midstream, and downstream interventions, such as cautious opioid prescribing, medications for opioid use disorder, and overdose prevention, respectively. 

This is an academic paper that provides an overview of the neurobiology and neuroscience of opioid use disorder (OUD), with diagrams showing the parts of the brain affected and the science underlying the high risk of recurrence of OUD symptoms. 

This federally-funded resource center provides a comprehensive list of resources and research specific to telehealth in substance use disorder treatment. 

The Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services Coronavirus Opioid Treatment Providers FAQ gives these organizations guidance on navigating state and federal regulations for methadone and buprenorphine during the Covid pandemic. 

This is an academic paper that examines polysubstance use disorders, the need for treatment systems to account for their high prevalence, and the high risks of developing more than one substance use disorder. For example, the increased risk of developing heroin dependence is twofold for alcohol misusers, threefold for cannabis users, 15-fold for cocaine users, and 40-fold for prescription misusers. Behavioral and neural circuitry in the context of co-use of substance is explored. 

This is a report from SAMHSA that highlights 10 collaborative faith-based partnerships and outlines the steps taken by these teams in establishing a foundation for sustained strategic partnerships among community and interfaith leaders to support prevention, treatment, and recovery needs in their communities.

This is an academic paper that provides an overview of the trajectory of the opioid crisis through the lens of a structural and social determinants of health framework. Having an understanding of the root causes of the opioid crisis, such as upstream structural factors, can inform comprehensive interventions to a complex public health emergency. 

This employer toolkit, developed by the Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Business Partnership, uses a five-step approach to prevent and address opioid use disorder and other substance use disorders within the workplace. The toolkit can be customized to fit an employer's needs. 

This is a presentation by Dr. Sharon Levy of Boston Children’s Hospital that gives an overview of the impact of opioid misuse on adolescents, including an emphasis on youth brain development and the risk factors that lead to opioid misuse. 

A toolkit by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) provides local, state, and national resources for local health departments to better address the opioid crisis. The toolkit is divided into sections: monitoring and surveillance, prevention, harm reduction, linkage to care, and stakeholders/partnerships. 

This is a paper that provides a preliminary evaluation of using peer outreach workers to identify and link people with opioid use disorder (OUD) to methadone treatment in a high-risk community in Chicago.

The results are promising as 88 active users with OUD were identified, 70 showed up for a linkage meeting to initiate treatment, and 70% of the people who initiated methadone treatment were still receiving methadone 60 days after intake. 

This is a website, operated by the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and funded by SAMHSA, that provides education and training at a local level to provide evidence-based practices in the prevention, treatment, and recovery of opioid use disorders. Technical assistance is available at no cost to all communities.