Program Models
The first opioid-specific drug court of its kind in the United States that immediately links participants to medications for opioid use disorder
- Treatment
- Peer-reviewed
- Replicated
- Diversion
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
A program in South Carolina that uses patient navigators to help facilitate buprenorphine initiation in the emergency department
- Treatment
- Peer-reviewed
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
Jurisdictions in the US have implemented vending machines for free, private dispensing of naloxone to reverse opioid overdoses
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention
A statewide service to help primary care and specialty providers better address patients with opioid use disorders and chronic pain
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Peer-reviewed
- Cautious Opioid Prescribing
- Educational
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
A state initiative that works with community organizations to expand the availability of naloxone in Alaska
- Prevention
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention
An initiative in Ohio that uses a community-driven, collective impact approach to respond to the opioid crisis with a focus on social determinants of health
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Report with evaluation
- Educational
- Housing, Education, and Employment
A statewide program provides community-level support to reduce overdose deaths via coalition building and technical assistance
- Full continuum of care
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Comprehensive services
- Educational
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
Diversion to treatment in Houston, Texas for a population that is disproportionately impacted by homelessness, mental illness, and addiction, including opioid use disorders
- Treatment
- Peer-reviewed
- Replicated
- Diversion
- Early Intervention
Supplementing medication treatment with contingency management shows promise in treating opioid use disorder
- Treatment
- Peer-reviewed
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
An online and mail order service provides access to harm reduction education and supplies including naloxone and syringes
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- COVID / Coronavirus related
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
This program provides remote evaluations for any patients with opioid use disorder in the state of Pennsylvania, increasing timely access to life-saving medications
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- COVID / Coronavirus related
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
Peer recovery coaching aimed at Indigenous communities in Montana
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Family Support
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Outreach
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
A mobile outreach van in Boston uses data-driven hotspotting to bring on-demand addiction clinical care and harm reduction services directly to high-risk populations
- Treatment
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Report with evaluation
- COVID / Coronavirus related
- Early Intervention
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Outreach
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
This post-overdose response program in Jacksonville, Florida engages overdose survivors in emergency departments, providing peer support and links to treatment and recovery services
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Overdose prevention
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
An overdose prevention program model in Baltimore that utilizes targeted naloxone distribution, naloxone training, and overdose education
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Educational
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
This statewide program in California provides access to medications for opioid use disorder in the emergency departments of 53 hospitals and links to treatment
- Treatment
- Peer-reviewed
- COVID / Coronavirus related
- Early Intervention
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
An opioid addiction recovery program in North Carolina for pregnant and post-partum women provides comprehensive services and support
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Peer-reviewed
- Comprehensive services
- Family Support
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Recovery coaching
A statewide helpline assists Indiana practitioners to find appropriate treatment for youth with substance use disorders ages 17 or younger
- Treatment
- Peer-reviewed
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
An Arizona program links overdose survivors with treatment and recovery services
- Treatment
- Recovery
- Harm Reduction
- Peer-reviewed
- Crisis intervention
- Family Support
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
A substance use prevention program targeted towards youth aged 10-14 and their families
- Prevention
- Peer-reviewed
- Early Intervention
- Educational
- Family Support