This is an academic paper that provides commentary on the importance of telemedicine as a tool to address the opioid crisis. Applying telehealth to delivering medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) has the potential to overcome barriers that keep people with opioid use disorder (OUD) from…

This is a report from Unity Recovery that provides guidance on how this recovery community organization provides digital recovery support services to their clients, with a special emphasis on recovery coaching…

This is a report from the Police Executive Research Forum, which convened public safety and public health experts to provide recommendations as standards of care for police departments in addressing the opioid crisis. Additionally, successfully implemented models are highlighted in this document…

This is a report from the Center for Court Innovation and reflects the cumulative effort of a working group of more than more than thirty criminal justice system practitioners, subject matter experts, researchers, and government officials. The history of opioid intervention courts are discussed…

This is a report from the National Academy of Medicine that describes the impact of the opioid crisis and promising approaches for five specific subpopulations: justice-involved populations, rural populations, veterans, adolescents and young adults, and persons who inject drugs.

This is an academic paper that provides a scoping review of policies that states have implemented to prevent opioid misuse and opioid use disorder, such as prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP), pain clinic laws, and laws restricting opioid prescribing. The evidence for these policies is…

This is an academic article from an expert in adolescent treatment of opioid use disorder that discusses the results of a previous trial of youth and young adults randomized to either extended-release naltrexone or buprenorphine. Outcomes were worse in youth, and this commentary discusses the…

This is a report from Children and Family Futures that defines and provides examples of collaborative practice in each of the ten system linkage elements, focused in the child welfare, substance use treatment, and juvenile court dependency systems. State and community collaborative groups can…

This is a report using the Communities That Care (CTC) model to combat risky youth behaviors. In rural western Massachusetts, a CRC coalition with members from many sectors of the community has been working for more than a decade to support youth well-being and reduce youth substance use. In…

This is an editorial in an academic journal about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on different aspects of the opioid use disorder treatment system, including opioid treatment providers, buprenorphine prescribing, bridge clinics, telemedicine, and delivery of harm reduction. 

This is an academic paper that conducts a systematic review to examine the evidence for overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) programs. The study found OEND programs are effective for reducing opioid-related mortality; however, additional high-quality research is required to…

This is an academic paper that provides a systematic review of existing research that has empirically evaluated interventions designed to reduce stigma related to substance use disorders. A range of interventions demonstrate promise for achieving meaningful improvements in self-, social-, and…

This report assess the stability and shelf life of naloxone under varying conditions, finding that it remains chemically stable following exposure to heat or freeze-thaw cycles after 28 days. This indicates that naloxone will remain effective in storage and distribution systems such as vending…

This is an academic paper that gives an overview of the types of and evidence for recovery support services, such as recovery high schools, collegiate recovery programs, recovery homes, recovery coaches, and recovery community centers, which support those in recovery from substance use disorders…

This is a written testimony from 2017 presented to Congress by experts in the Department of Health and Human Services outlining the steps the department has taken to advance the goals of the Opioid Strategy. This document presents how leaders at SAMHSA, CDC, NIH, and FDA bring unique expertise…

This is a website where you can download a report from Shatterproof that reviews data from states that suffered the highest number of fentanyl overdose deaths from 2011 through 2017. Based on reviewing this data, the report identifies a number of promising state initiatives that are already in…

This report highlights the work of more than 25 physicians, policymakers, researchers, and advocates to illustrate how strategies to combat the opioid crisis can be implemented. Strategies include: increasing access to evidence based treatment and addiction medicine; enforcing behavioral health…

This working paper (authors Brill and Ganz) from the American Enterprise Institute provides an estimation of the economic cost of the opioid crisis to each state and each county. 

This academic paper presents a case study on the impact of safe use spaces on a population of unhoused individuals living in an emergency shelter in Ontario, Canada during COVID-19. The paper investigates how the harm reduction strategies implemented positively changed the outcomes of this…

This paper outlines the relationship between stigma and opioid use disorder and explains how this has impacted treatment provision and harm reduction. The authors used a framework to identify sources of opioid related stigma on the macro, meso, and micro level. The authors also provide potential…