Primary prevention strategies in Michigan targeted towards children and adolescents to promote cautious opioid prescribing and increase appropriate disposal of unused prescription opioid medications

A hospital-based intervention and referral program in Delaware for patients presenting with substance use disorders

A bilingual, bicultural behavioral health center providing a comprehensive continuum of care that specializes in serving the Latinx community in Massachusetts

A toolkit developed in Oregon to raise awareness among pharmacists about the opioid crisis, increase their access to PDMP data, and facilitate safe opioid dispensing

A crisis intervention team in Indianapolis that responds to behavioral health crises to divert individuals away from the criminal justice and healthcare systems

A distance education system for physicians, first developed in New Mexico, which enhances a state's capacity to treat opioid use disorder

A mutual support model, originally developed in Massachusetts, that can provide family members affected by opioid use disorder with support, reduce stigma in the community, and increase the targeted distribution of naloxone.

An innovative recovery community organization model that provides the community with both recovery support services and harm reduction services

An educational intervention developed in Pennsylvania aimed at providing a better understanding of the opioid crisis targeted to public health and healthcare professionals in training

A peer-delivered, emergency department-based response to a nonfatal overdose in New York City that is grounded in harm reduction

Provides opioid overdose response training and naloxone kits to potential witnesses of overdoses

An early intervention program model, developed at Boston Medical Center, that identifies those at risk for alcohol and drug-related consequences, provides a brief intervention, and connects them to treatment and comprehensive services when appropriate 

A collegiate recovery program in Lubbock, Texas supporting and facilitating higher education for students in recovery 

Providing buprenorphine for those waiting for opioid use disorder treatment in Vermont reduces drug-related risks

A publicly funded program in Ontario, Canada to increase access to naloxone through community pharmacies

A model for the delivery of opioid agonist therapy with buprenorphine, in which nurses working with physicians play a central role in the evaluation and monitoring of patients

Naloxone training and referral to treatment by law enforcement, community education and collaboration, and a post-overdose response team to respond to the opioid crisis in a Michigan county 

A culturally competent substance use prevention intervention targeting Native American youth in three different tribal communities 

A cost-effective network of recovery centers across Kentucky that provides housing and recovery services to individuals with social determinants of health challenges

An innovative virtual reality naloxone training session from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing targeted towards the general population