This is a report from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing that provides local and state health departments with information, resources, and tools to implement effective strategies to support linking people who are at risk of opioid overdose to care. It is organized by seven strategies aligned with health department essential functions. There are examples of successful initiatives implemented throughout the United States. This resource can help communities implement interventions that can reduce the gap between individuals who have opioid use disorder and those receiving treatment for this condition. 

This website from the Pew Charitable Trusts provides the state policy landscape for opioid treatment programs (OTPs) and highlights policy barriers and facilitators in accessing methadone treatment in each state. 

This is a report from the Pew Research Center that gives a comprehensive overview of regulations and other policies at the state level that affect opioid treatment programs that primarily deliver methadone treatment. These policies are visually depicted using U.S. maps.  

This website has an interactive map that looks at deaths from alcohol, suicides, and drugs for each state. A downloadable report offers an extensive national resilience strategy. 

This issue brief from Trust for America's Health and Well-Being Trust provides national and state data from 1999-2017 on deaths of despair, which are defined as deaths attributed to drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol poisoning/alcohol-related liver disease. 

This is an issue brief that provides an update on the first two "Pain in the Nation" reports. Opioid overdose deaths have declined but deaths involving alcohol, suicide, synethetic opioids, and psychostimulants continue to rise. Prior responses to the opioid crisis are highlighted, experts are interviewed, and recommendations are made. 

This guidebook from the Urban Institute has been developed to provide community-based organizations with an overview of jail reentry work and to help them develop and sustain a partnership with their local jail. It discusses how to build a partnership with the local jail and includes concrete steps to develop and sustain this partnership. In addition, there are examples of existing strong partnerships and links to reentry resources. 

This is a report from the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care that summarizes the Patient and Family Advisor (PFA) Summit on the opioid crisis, held in 2018. Characteristics of meaningful partnerships with patients and families are discussed and several promising partnerships are highlighted. Recommendations are made to strengthen these partnerships. 

The Partnership to End Addiction, which recently merged with the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, is a national nonprofit committed to supporting the whole family addressing substance use and addiction and provides helpful resources for prevention and treatment. 

This is a website providing tools, information, and other resources to help communities develop and implement post-overdose response teams. 

This is a report from Optum that describes how peer support services can be employed across the continuum of care for behavioral health, with a special focus on programs already implemented and their results. 

This report discusses the role of peer support workers and models of care that are available to assist individuals who are experiencing a crisis. This document highlights specific models of peer support services and features key resources.