This is a report, put together by NORC for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), that examines the long-term sustainability and impact of community coalitions that were funded by the Community Access Program (CAP) and its successor, the Healthy Communities Access Program (HCAP), which amounted to $525 million in grants from 2000 to 2006.

Within this document, community coalition characteristics that predict sustainability are discussed. Though the coalitions analyzed did not only represent substance misuse programs, the findings may be generalizable to opioid coalitions and task forces. 

This is an academic paper that describes how an opioid stewardship program at a healthcare system can address the opioid crisis. Institutional changes include reviewing current practice, workflows, and external and internal guidelines and evaluating and standardizing prescribing practices.

This is a report from the Drug Policy Alliance that gives an overview of the emergence of drug-induced homicide laws across states to address the opioid crisis and how this may be an ineffective policy response due to the nuances of buyers and sellers in an illicit drug market. Several real-world examples where these laws were used are described.

This is a report that provides an update on the Trump Administration's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, which includes progress made on the initial 56 recommendations made by the Commission. 

This guide provides practical approaches to prevent addiction-related stigma. These range from simple efforts, such as writing letters to the editor, to more complex efforts, such as implementing community-based stigma prevention campaigns.

This is a toolkit from the Arizona Department of Health Services that educates prescribers and redefines pain and addiction as interlinked, complex, public health processes, requiring interprofessional care and involvement of the community and health-based systems. Multiple stakeholder perspectives were included in creating this curriculum and it appears in the peer-reviewed literature here and here. 

This is a report from the National Endowment for the Arts that describes the evidence on the role of the arts in the management of pain and in the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders. Evidence for art-based therapies, especially music, is promising and also includes painting, literature, and dance.

This website provides a report and other resources from the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health (ASSPH) that makes research-informed recommendations across the entire continuum of care to address the opioid crisis. 

This is an academic paper that examines the risk of prescription opioid misuse among children of parents that report using prescription opioids. The study did find an increased risk suggested that restricting the availability and accessibility of prescription opioids in the home, such as drug disposal, drop boxes, and lock boxes, is an important intervention area to decrease adolescent prescription opioid misuse. 

This is a database from ASTHO entitled “Substance Misuse and Addiction Resources” that is interactive and has thousands of resources, many on opioids.

This is an issue brief from SAMHSA that provides an overview of national trends related to opioid misuse and overdose, explains opioid risk factors and routes to access for youth, and describes school-based and school-community initiatives that address opioid prevention. The document includes an extensive array of practical tools, educator resources, and state and local opioid prevention examples. 

This is a report from the Rural Policy Research Institute that provides an overview of behavioral health in rural America with the goal of helping rural leaders and providers understand the issues related to rural mental health and substance use and give them resources and tools to develop targeted strategies to address the unique needs of their communities.