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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 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.
SAMHSA’s updated National Behavioral Health Crisis Care Guidance is comprised of three documents: 2025 National Guidelines for a Behavioral Health Coordinated System of Crisis Care; Model Definitions for Behavioral Health Emergency, Crisis, and Crisis-Related Services and a draft Mobile Crisis Team Services: An Implementation Toolkit.
SAMHSA has issued two new papers on integration of behavioral health care in specialty care settings such as oncology and gastroenterology clinics. One paper focuses on care for adults and the other pediatric populations. The two papers discuss examples of integrated care models, key components of integrated care models and examples. The goal of these papers is to help ensure patients in these specialty care settings have access to behavioral health care.
The Behavioral Health Care Access Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) Populations report highlights findings from the 2023 SAMHSA publication Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Behavioral Health: Results from the 2021 and 2022 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health on the elevated rates of substance use, suicidality, and mental illness among LGB individuals compared to straight individuals. The report investigates whether these findings remain statistically significant when controlling for factors such as age, race, educational attainment, marital status, and financial hardship.