This is an interactive toolkit from the city of Philadelphia that supports behavioral health agencies in the process of integrating peer providers into their services settings. Tools in this kit will help agencies to recruit, retain, and effectively deploy people in recovery in a variety of new peer support roles.

This is a report from the National Council for Behavioral Health that highlights how recovery community organizations and programs are employing peer support workers in the emergency department after opioid overdoses. Several program models are discussed in this document. 

This is a report from ASAM, Faces and Voices of Recovery, and Community Catalyst that aims to identify what outcomes matter most to people with substance use disorders (SUD) to ensure their voices guide future research and action to improve the system. Nationally, the researchers surveyed nearly 900 people along with hosting multiple focus groups, with the ultimate goal of improving treatment outcomes by focusing research, policymaking, and service delivery on what people with SUD want and need.

This document provides jail and prison administrators, program managers, medical staff in correctional settings, and reentry staff with a performance management framework to monitor medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in correctional settings.  Twelve core performance measures are described, including percent of inmates with opioid use disorder, the percentage of these initiated into MAT, rate of treatment retention after release, rearrest rate, and post-release overdose death rate. 

This is a report from the Center for Public Safety Initiatives that provides a catalog and summaries of programs, approaches, and interventions to respond to the opioid crisis. These entries include responses that are local, national, and international. 

This is a report from the American Medical Association which gives an overview on actions that the medical community has taken in combating the opioid epidemic, as well as data surrounding its impacts. The report also gives recommendations on further steps the medical community can take to decrease the number of opioid related mortalities. 

This is a toolkit designed to hep tribal justice system practitioners create or enhance reentry programs for American Indians and Alaska Natives returning from jail or prison. It also offers guidance for practitioners who are currently working in a reentry program. 

This academic paper discusses a model of treating patients with substance use disorder (SUD) who are hospitalized. The authors performed a needs assessment and then convened academic and community partners, including a hospital, community SUD organizations, and Medicaid accountable care organizations, to design a care model for medically complex hospitalized patients with SUD.

This website provides vision, leadership, advocacy, and education to facilitate the growth and practice of deflection and pre-arrest diversion in the criminal-legal system, and contains a variety of resources and educational opportunities. 

This is a report from the Pew Institute that highlights the barriers to expanding access to buprenorphine and makes recommendations to state policymakers to overcome these barriers with a focus on increasing access and affordability, increasing retention in treatment, and addressing social determinants of health. 

This study sought to understand important changes in co-occurring opioid and nonopioid drug use (i.e., polysubstance use) within the opioid crisis in the United States. Past-month use of at least 1 nonopioid drug occurred in nearly all participants (> 90%) in this study.

This paper emphasizes that viewing opioid trends in a “silo” ignores the fact that polysubstance use is ubiquitous among those with opioid use disorder and that significant changes in polysubstance use should be monitored alongside opioid trends.

This is a toolkit developed by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services which gives communities strategies on how to establish a post overdose response team. This includes providing harm reduction strategies, naloxone, overdose prevention training, and overall ways to reduce overdose mortality. The toolkit provides four specific phases which explain how to design and implement the program and also make improvements.