This website was developed by the National Association of Counties and empowers local leaders to invest resources from opioid settlements into effective treatment, recovery, prevention, and other public health practices.
Recovery Resources
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Policymakers
This is a peer-reviewed paper in Nature providing an overview of opioid use disorder (OUD) and is written by a group comprised of many leading experts in the field. The paper discusses the epidemiology of OUD, especially as it relates to risk factors and burden. Next, the neuroscience and pathophysiology of OUD are discussed. The last half of the paper provides the evidence on strategies for prevention, early intervention, and treatment for OUD.
- Early Intervention
- Educational
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Overdose prevention
- Syringe service program / Needle exchange
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Medical
- Pharmacies
- Policymakers
This is a toolkit from the Opioid Response Network that is designed to assist faith-based leaders in responding to the opioid crisis. It provides current information, resources, and action steps to support faith-based leaders in meeting the needs of their members and communities related to the opioid crisis and opioid use disorder.
- Educational
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
This is a report from the National League of Cities which discusses several examples of interventions addressing the opioid crisis at the city and state level. Opportunities — through the use of Medicaid, federal grants, and other resources — are highlighted to expand those efforts
- Diversion
- Educational
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Criminal Justice
- Health Insurers
- Law Enforcement
- Policymakers
This is a report done by the U.S Government Accountability Office which gives an overview of how State Opioid Response (SOR) grants are used, examines how SAMHSA assesses SOR grants, and makes recommendations to SAMHSA on continuing to monitor and analyze program information in order to make improvements.
- Educational
- Community Coalitions
- Policymakers
This interactive employer toolkit, developed by the Kentuckiana Health Collaborative (KHC), provides recommendations and tools for employers to support their employees and their dependents in prevention, treatment, and recovery from opioid misuse and opioid use disorder (OUD).
- Early Intervention
- Educational
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Employers
- Policymakers
This is an academic paper that describes the development of the Ability, Inspiration and Motivation (AIM) group, an alternative peer support group that aims to remove medication stigma from peer recovery. Given that many people on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) feel stigmatized in 12 Step-based meetings, this alternative combines the strengths of peer support with evidence-based medication treatment.
Other peer support alternatives for people on MOUD include Medication-Assisted Recovery Anonymous (MARA).
- Educational
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
This issue brief from Trust for America's Health and Well-Being Trust provides national and state data from 1999-2017 on deaths of despair, which are defined as deaths attributed to drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol poisoning/alcohol-related liver disease.
- Educational
- Overdose prevention
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Harm Reduction Specialists
- Policymakers
This is an issue brief that provides an update on the first two "Pain in the Nation" reports. Opioid overdose deaths have declined but deaths involving alcohol, suicide, synethetic opioids, and psychostimulants continue to rise. Prior responses to the opioid crisis are highlighted, experts are interviewed, and recommendations are made.
- Educational
- Overdose prevention
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Harm Reduction Specialists
- Policymakers
This guidebook from the Urban Institute has been developed to provide community-based organizations with an overview of jail reentry work and to help them develop and sustain a partnership with their local jail. It discusses how to build a partnership with the local jail and includes concrete steps to develop and sustain this partnership. In addition, there are examples of existing strong partnerships and links to reentry resources.
- Comprehensive services
- Housing, Education, and Employment
- Overdose prevention
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Criminal Justice
- Harm Reduction Specialists
- Law Enforcement
- Policymakers
This is a report from the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care that summarizes the Patient and Family Advisor (PFA) Summit on the opioid crisis, held in 2018. Characteristics of meaningful partnerships with patients and families are discussed and several promising partnerships are highlighted. Recommendations are made to strengthen these partnerships.
- Educational
- Family Support
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Advocates / Peers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Medical
- Policymakers
This is an academic paper that provides a systematic review of a wide array of peer recovery support services that have been evaluated in academic literature up to 2014.
- Recovery coaching
- Addiction Treatment Providers
- Community Coalitions
- Community Health Officials
- Medical