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SAMHSA is committed to improving prevention, treatment, and recovery support services for mental and substance use disorders.
The Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center provides communities, clinicians, policy-makers and others with the information and tools to incorporate evidence-based practices into their communities or clinical settings.
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.
This TIP supports learning about the key aspects, functions, and uses of Peer Support Services (PSS) in recovery from problematic substance use, which will help providers, supervisors, and administrators in SUD treatment programs better understand and respond to these changes.
This advisory discusses the epidemiology of the mental health symptoms and conditions of Long COVID, provides evidence-based resources for the treatment of those conditions, and offers possible resources.
Alcohol misuse is focused on binge and heavy drinking patterns within a community or at the population level. This guide will serve as a compendium of key policies for the prevention of alcohol misuse that have been identified as evidence-based by robust scientific literature.
This Advisory reviews the evidence on prescription stimulant misuse among youth and young adults. It establishes prescription stimulant misuse as a public health problem, identifies associated risk and protective factors, and provides programs and action steps for stakeholders to prevent misuse.
The goal of this guide is to review the literature on prevention of marijuana use among youth, distill the research into recommendations for practice, and provide examples of the ways these recommendations can be implemented.
This guide reviews interventions on treating substance misuse and substance use disorders (SUD) in youth with serious emotional disturbances (SED), distills the research into recommendations for practice, and provides examples of the ways that these recommendations can be implemented.
The goal of this guide is to review the research on treatment for suicidal ideation, self-harm, suicide attempts amongst youth, distill the research into recommendations for practice, and provide examples of how practitioners can use these practices in their programs.
This CDC Resource offers Community Preventive Services Task Force recommendations and evidence ratings on regulation of alcohol outlet density, taxes, dram shop liability, sales, electronic screening, and minor sales.
This guide supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to prevent vaping. It describes relevant research findings, examines emerging and best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources.
This guide discusses the challenges in care transitions and the need for better care practices and care coordination from inpatient to outpatient behavioral health care, and presents feasible, evidence-based practices that health systems and providers can take to improve patient connection and safety during inpatient to outpatient transition, and provides recommendations specific to both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Zero Suicide operationalizes the core components necessary for health care systems to transform suicide care into seven elements. Within each element section, find a description of what each element is, why it is necessary to Zero Suicide implementation, a summary of supporting research, and key readings and tools. Use the navigation bar that appears at the top of each element page to jump between sections.
Developed by the Collaboration for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), this guide offers an organizational framework for instilling social emotional learning (SEL) principles into education systems. SEL is the process through which children and adults develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills to manage emotions, achieve positive goals, display empathy for others, build positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Framework is an online tool for mental health promotion and youth violence prevention supported by multiple federal agencies. The SS/HS Framework includes guides, tools, and resources to help communities plan, implement, sustain, and expand school safety programs. It is useful for law enforcement, juvenile justice, and social services.
The ASAM Clinical Practice Guideline on Alcohol Withdrawal Management is intended to aid clinicians in their clinical decision-making and management of patients experiencing alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
This guide developed by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) provides healthcare providers with instant access to current guidelines in a clear concise format.
This guide supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to prevent substance misuse among young adults. It describes relevant research findings, examines emerging and best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources.
This tool consists of frequency of use questions to identify risky substance use by adolescent patients. The accompanying resources assist clinicians in providing patient feedback and resources for follow-up.
This guide provides school leaders and administrators with key information regarding a broad range of student assistance services. It addresses school connectedness, substance use, mental health promotion, and violence prevention. The guide includes information about effective planning, implementation, evaluation, and sustainability of student assistance programs in disparate settings.
Informed by experts in the school health field, this guidance document assists communities in developing high-quality, comprehensive school mental health systems to support students.
This document provides state by state information on implementation of intensive care coordination using a wraparound approach for children and youth with complex mental and substance use disorders.
This Guidance document gives a “bird’s eye view” of strategies to support best practice prescribing of antipsychotics for youth and summarizes the available evidence and principles to support these strategies.
This screening tool consists of frequency of use questions to categorize substance use by adolescent patients into different risk categories. The accompanying resources assist clinicians in providing patient feedback and resources for follow-up.
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a framework involving multi-tiered levels of support for students’ needs in order to improve outcomes across the entire school. PBIS involves integrating data, systems, and practices that affect school climate including factors like bullying, drug and alcohol use, and social-emotional competence. This website contains practice guides, case studies, and blueprints.