This is an academic paper discussing The Opioid Initiative, launched in Oregon in 2015, which focuses on integrating efforts to improve patient care and safety, and population health, by increasing access to nonopioid pain treatment, supporting medications for opioid use disorder and naloxone access for people taking opioids, decreasing opioid prescribing, and using data to inform policies and interventions. This state initiative has shown promising results. 

This is an academic paper that provides an overview of interventions for incarcerated people in the United States with opioid use disorder (OUD). There is also a specific focus on addressing the social determinants of health within this study.

This compendium of best practice recommendations and resources from the Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services was developed to provide guidance and support to initiate and expand medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) for patient populations in a variety of service settings as requested by health care and behavioral health professionals.

Within this document, there are also sections on best practices on communicating with patients and reducing stigma. 

This report describes findings from the first nationwide survey of persons in recovery from drug and alcohol problems about their experiences in active addiction and in recovery. It documents how recovery dramatically increases life satisfaction and community well-being, thus highlighting the importance for communities to develop recovery support system.

This report outlines how to maximize opportunities for linkage to care already present in our current healthcare system. These recommendations offer guidance on how to develop and implement effective linkage to care strategies for healthcare professionals and other community leaders in public health, education, criminal justice, social services, business, and government. The aim of this document is to provide the tools to these entities to increase access and linkage to medications for opioid use disorder. 

This systematic review characterizes the existing experimental, quasi-experimental, single- and multi-group prospective and retrospective, and cross-sectional research on peer recovery support services.

Findings to date tentatively speak to the potential of peer supports across a number of SUD treatment settings, as evidenced by positive findings on measures including reduced substance use and SUD relapse rates, improved relationships with treatment providers and social supports, increased treatment retention, and greater treatment satisfaction.

This is a report that guides communities on effectively using potential opioid settlement money. There is specific focus on how communities can successfully invest one-time resources in sustainable, evidence-based early intervention, treatment, and recovery services.

This report describes the ways and extent to which state Medicaid programs covered peer support services for adult Medicare beneficiaries with substance use disorders (SUD) and how three state Medicaid programs - Colorado, Missouri, and Oregon - offered these services. The experience of these programs can assist other states in optimizing the management of peer support services.

This toolkit developed by the Alaska Native Tribal Consortium focuses on the provision of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services in rural areas of Alaska. The guide is aimed at educating healthcare providers who want to learn more about addiction medicine, practitioners who want to start an MAT program in their community, as well as current practitioners of addiction medicine. 

This is a website that provides online meetings and in-person meeting locations for a 12-Step fellowship specifically for those using medications, who sometimes feel stigmatized in other 12-Step fellowships. 

This is a report from SAMHSA for a wide range of stakeholders (healthcare professionals, policymakers, patients, and families) that gives an overview of the three FDA-approved medications used to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) as well as other strategies and services needed to support recovery for people with OUD. Resources are provided at the end of this document. An executive summary of the report can be found here. 

This is a report from the Alliance for Addiction Payment Reform, a group advocating for employing a chronic disease model of treatment for substance use disorder, that gives an overview of the availability of digital technology options to improve treatment outcomes, such as telehealth, digital apps, virtual recovery supports, and wearables and monitoring devices.