Publications and Digital Products

The Guidelines address the implementation of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in state prisons and practical information about medications, service delivery models, regulatory requirements, staff training, and cultural issues that may affect the uptake and integration of MOUD.

This Advisory highlights the importance of methadone as a tool for treating incarcerated with people with opioid use disorder (OUD). The Advisory describes different institutional arrangements for providing methadone in correctional settings.

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.

States can support and finance the evidence-based practice of peer services within a recovery continuum of care in multiple ways. This issue brief highlights the incorporation of peer services and the variety of funding mechanisms and structures that can support and finance services.

Opioid misuse and use disorders among older adults are a growing public health problem that is often overlooked and undertreated. This increasing misuse and need for treatment can be attributed to several cultural, physiological, and systemic influences. This brochure discusses age-appropriate OUD prevention, treatment, and recovery approaches and provides key facts, considerations, program examples, and resources.

This Advisory examines the role of genetic testing in assessing SUD vulnerability and outlines the current limitations of these technologies.