This is a report which describes how to develop a more coordinated and comprehensive health education system in regards to opioid use disorder. The report provides information on the current health professional education environment and also a survey of its regulations. The literature review specifically focuses on the education of medical professionals involved in pain management and the substance use disorder workforce. 

This is an academic paper that examined an intervention that provided caregivers of patients in a pediatric emergency department education on safe medication storage and disposal as well as a lock box. Findings show that, at baseline, very few caregivers engaged in safe medication storage and disposal, but, after the intervention, a large majority (90%) used the lock box. 

This is a toolkit from SAMHSA that provides guidance to employers related to counseling, referrals, and follow-up services, such as alternatives to prescription drugs, workplace drug misuse and relapse prevention, dangers of combined drug use, screenings, and evaluations before returning to work. 

This is a toolkit from the Ohio Chamber of Commerce for employers. There is an online course, divided into five modules, that gives an overview of the legal and operational issues an employer must consider in dealing with an employee’s use of opioids and other substances, as well as additional resources. 

This is a report from the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at UPenn that provides four recommendations for the federal government to consider in addressing the opioid crisis in the domains of cautious opioid prescribing, treatment and recovery services, harm reduction strategies, and efficient distribution of money from opioid litigation. 

This is a report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse that provides proven and promising strategies from a range of evidence-based resources, thus offering a clear and concise set of actions that states can take. Its aim is to help state policymakers understand what a public health approach looks like and how best to implement one.

This document seeks to arm policymakers with the information they need to replace misinformation and stigma with research-based facts and practical, health-based solutions. There is a wide array of existing state initiatives highlighted. 

This is a report from SAMHSA that gives an overview of HEALing Communities Study and how this project engaged community coalitions. This report's purpose is to help build and sustain community coalitions to address the opioid crisis. 

This is an academic paper that provides commentary on how stigma stymies progress across the entire continuum of care - prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery. Federal and state initiatives to alleviate stigma are discussed. 

This is an academic paper that rigorously tested the POP4Teens educational intervention among adolescents, measuring attitudes, knowledge, and perceived risk. The intervention positively impacted all study variables that are known to prevent prescription opioid misuse among teens.

This academic paper evaluates the impact of Oregon's improvement project to reduce the number of high dose opioid prescriptions. The study found that there was an immediate reduction in high dose opioid prescription rates but rates of opioid overdose did not decrease. 

This is a report which presents findings from an evaluation on criminal policy reforms impacting vulnerable populations in Baltimore, Maryland. Researchers examined the potential impacts of the decision to cease prosecutions of drug and paraphernalia possession and of prostitution. 

This is an academic paper that examines the quality of evidence for prevention strategies related to both preventing opioid misuse and opioid use disorder as well as opioid overdoses. Topics such as PDMPs, safe storage and disposal, insurance strategies, naloxone distribution and education, and community coalitions are explored within this paper.