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New Resource: Rural Disaster Behavioral Health – A Guide for Outreach Workers and Crisis Counselors

This guide provides staff with knowledge and strategies to best support diverse rural communities. It considers risk factors, strengths, and common disaster reactions unique to rural communities to support best … read more

Cannabis use linked to altered connectivity in brain’s executive control network, study finds

A recent study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology has found that cannabis use is associated with alterations in the connectivity of a specific brain network called the executive control network. However, … read more

Embracing Recovery-Oriented Harm Reduction in Medication-Assisted Treatment

Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is widely accepted as the most effective form of treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder. MAT options have offered a pathway to recovery for many individuals … read more

After High School – Talking With Your Young Adult About Underage Drinking

This updated fact sheet is to inform parents how to effectively talk to their young adult about the risks of underage drinking.

Connecting Communities to Substance Use Services: Practical Tools for First Responders

This guide provides practical, evidence-based information that first responder agencies, their partners, and communities can use to implement or expand practices and programs for linking people to substance use services.

2023-2026 SAMHSA Strategic Plan

The 2023–2026 SAMHSA Strategic Plan presents a new person-centered mission and vision highlighting key guiding principles and presenting new priorities, goals, and objectives.

Practice-Based Guidelines: Buprenorphine in the Age of Fentanyl

This guide provides clinical practice-based information on the use of buprenorphine in the treatment of individuals using fentanyl and other highly potent synthetic opioids.

What Do We Know About “Gaming Disorder”?

Video game playing is now one of the most popular hobbies across sex and age groups, but a small proportion of gamers develop negative symptoms affecting their mental and physical … read more

Taking Action to Break Language Barriers

The Addiction Policy Forum released prevention resources translated into 12 languages to help improve language access to information on the prevention of substance use disorders. The project was supported by … read more

Key Takeaways from Rx Summit 2023

This summit is the largest, most influential annual event addressing the opioid and addiction crisis. For the first time in its 12-year history, the topic of overdose prevention centers took … read more