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This comprehensive resource is designed to help communities expand access to lifesaving medications like naloxone to reduce overdose fatalities. The toolkit provides actionable guidance for community leaders, public health professionals, and other partners to create effective overdose prevention and response strategies to improve local overdose reduction outcomes.
This product provides guidance and resources to community and faith-based leaders, educators, behavioral and other health professional, first responders, and others to help address the long-lasting impacts of trauma and violence in their communities.
To assess the state of LGBTQI+ behavioral health and identify opportunities for change, in June 2024 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services held a two-day LGBTQI+ Behavioral Health Summit (the Summit).
This guided document summarizes the experiences, insights, suggestions, and concerns shared by participants in Family Peer Support: Broadening the View, a recent virtual event hosted by SAMHSA’s Office of Recovery. The goal of this event was to ensure that those with lived experience as advocates, leaders, peer support providers, and—most important—family members could share their perspectives regarding the possible expansion of family peer support services.
This fact sheet offers key points about the disparities and magnitude of behavioral health problems in rural communities and the challenges for service delivery in rural areas such as geographic distance and workforce shortages. Solutions based on innovative practices and community collaborations were highlighted in SAMHSA’s Office of Recovery Rural Recovery Meeting along with other sources. This factsheet offers innovative and promising practice approaches to improve rural behavioral health, including how to provide greater access to services.
A guidance document from the Wellness in the Workplace Summit that convened both federal and non-federal partners to review innovative approaches for identifying and creating employment opportunities for people in or seeking recovery from substance use and/or mental health conditions. The issue brief is intended for use as a guide by businesses and state and local governments to implement the identified best practices of recovery ready workplaces and wellness initiatives and includes information on what is a recovery ready workplace, where to start, case examples, and additional resources to learn more.
A toolkit that offers critical analysis across harm reduction and recovery, recommends facts and guidance for advancing partnerships between harm reduction and recovery providers, and helps to inform policies that may impact local, state, and federal funding for harm reduction and recovery.
SAMHSA’s new National Guidance on Essential Specialty Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Care articulates a core or essential set of services for adults with SUD that should be available at any specialty SUD treatment facility in the United States.
The use of methamphetamine among some gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (“MSM”) and transgender women (TGW) is a public health concern. Health providers have an opportunity to work with MSM and TGW populations to screen for patterns of methamphetamine use, identify co-occurring health problems, and recommend strategies to minimize risk and obtain treatment in order to achieve recovery.