This is a report from the Public Library Association and OCLC that describes how public libraries are supporting their communities through the opioid crisis and how libraries are partnering with organizations to meet local needs. The responses of eight public libraries across the nation are discussed in detail within this document.
Recovery Resources
- Overdose prevention
- Recovery coaching
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Harm Reduction Specialists
- Policymakers
This is a website from the research center RAND that serves as a source for innovative research in opioid policy science. Tools and information on responses to the opioid crisis that target a wide range of stakeholders are provided, which includes a database of academic literature.
- Educational
- Community Coalitions
- Policymakers
This is a study that followed 931 substance using women who either received traditional services or traditional services plus a recovery coach. The study found that the use of recovery coaches in child welfare significantly decreases the risk of substance exposure at birth.
- Family Support
- Recovery coaching
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Health Insurers
- Hospitals
- Medical
- Policymakers
This report, funded by RIZE Massachusetts, investigates evidence for using Recovery Coach services in Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) care in Massachusetts, including the definition of a Recovery Coach, the role Recovery Coaches play in recovery, the scope of Recovery Coach services, and the effect they have on health outcomes and cost.
- Recovery coaching
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Health Insurers
- Hospitals
- Medical
- Policymakers
This toolkit by Faces and Voices of Recovery describes the role of recovery community organizations (RCOs) in the community response to substance use disorders. It discusses already-implemented RCOs and contains steps to facilitate implementation of a new RCO.
- Comprehensive services
- Educational
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Recovery coaching
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Policymakers
The Recovery Friendly Workplace Toolkit is prepared by the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence and aims to educate employers on substance use disorder and its impact on the workplace in order to encourage them to adopt practices aimed at providing recovery resources in the workplace. Practical tools and information are provided.
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Advocates / Peers
- Employers
- Policymakers
This is an academic paper that uses the National Recovery Study to specifically examine recovery from opioid problems. Findings suggest that people in early recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD) likely need more comprehensive services over a longer period of time compared with those in recovery from alcohol use disorders (AUD).
- Comprehensive services
- Educational
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Medical
- Policymakers
This monograph contains a synthesis of findings from scientific studies and recommendations from new grassroots recovery advocacy and support organizations that are collectively pushing a fundamental redesign of addiction treatment in the United States.
This document explains that, based on growing evidence of the chronicity and complexity of severe substance use disorders, we are faced with an increasing need to shift the current acute care model of treatment toward a model of assertive and sustained recovery management.
- Comprehensive services
- Educational
- Recovery coaching
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Health Officials
- Medical
This monograph emphasizes that the addictions treatment field is reaching a tipping point that is revolutionizing the ways in which behavioral health leaders think about people with alcohol and other drug problems, and consequently how services and systems are developed.
At its core, this movement represents a shift away from a crisis-oriented, professionally directed, acute-care approach with its emphasis on isolated treatment episodes, to a recovery management approach that provides long-term supports and recognizes the many pathways to healing.
This monograph presents a systematic review of the literature to support this transition and the concrete strategies that will help make the vision of recovery-oriented service systems a reality.
- Comprehensive services
- Educational
- Post-overdose response
- Recovery coaching
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Health Officials
- Medical
- Policymakers
This is a toolkit from SAMHSA that can help communities raise awareness of recovery and reduce stigma through resources like social media content and other promotional materials.
- Educational
- Advocates / Peers
A toolkit from SAMHSA that guides communities in holding events for Recovery Month, which is held in September each year. Engaging stakeholders such as healthcare professionals, first responders, and youth and emerging leaders is discussed.
- Educational
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
The Recovery 101 section of the Recovery Research Institute website has data for different populations and many other recovery-related resources.