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This National Practice Guideline (NPG) pocket guide from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) is intended to aid clinicians in their clinical decision-making and patient management. The NPG pocket guide strives to identify and define clinical decision-making junctures that meet the needs of most patients in most circumstances.
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Suicidal behavior is a major public health problem in the United States. The suicide rate has steadily increased over the past 2 decades. This large-scale cohort comparison study found that SPI+ was associated with a reduction in suicidal behavior and increased treatment engagement among suicidal patients following ED discharge and may be a valuable clinical tool in health care settings.
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This list of resources, put forth by the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS), assists providers in integrating primary and behavioral health services to better address the needs of individuals with mental health and substance use conditions, whether seen in specialty behavioral health or primary care provider settings.
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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.
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This toolkit provides correctional administrators and health care providers recommendations and tools for implementing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) in correctional settings. It provides examples from the field that can be widely applied and adapted for programs that serve justice-involved individuals.
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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.
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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.
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The National Practice Guideline (NPG) from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) is intended to inform and empower clinicians, health system administrators, criminal justice system administrators, and policymakers who are interested in implementing evidence-based practices to improve outcomes for individuals with opioid use disorder.
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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.
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This guide helps clinicians influence the change process in their clients by incorporating motivational interventions into substance use disorder treatment programs.
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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.
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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.
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Chronic pain is common, multidimensional, and individualized, and treatment can be challenging for healthcare providers as well as patients. In response to the critical need for consistent and current opioid prescribing guidelines, the CDC released the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain.
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This guide examines a wide range of evidence-based practices for screening and assessment of people in the justice system who have co-occurring mental and substance use disorders.
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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.
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Prevention professionals use SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) as a comprehensive guide to plan, implement, and evaluate prevention practices and programs.
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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.
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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.
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This tool guides clinicians through a series of questions to identify risky substance use in their adult patients. The accompanying resources assist clinicians in providing patient feedback and arranging for specialty care, where necessary, using the 5 As of intervention.
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This report provides background and practical information promoting the use of psychiatric advance directives as a tool for self-directed care in psychiatric treatment, progress toward parity in mental health, and supporting crisis planning and the rights of persons who live with mental illness.
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This toolkit is designed to guide schools through the process of developing comprehensive screening procedures, as well as provide readily available resources to facilitate the implementation of effective behavioral health screening in schools.
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This document provides guidance to assist state policymakers and practitioners in reforming, implementing, and appropriately targeting commitment law and practice, both inpatient and outpatient, to the small proportion of adults who require and may benefit from its use.
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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.
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This brief defines drug addiction and discusses treatment approaches for combating it.
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This abstract lists the standards that NADCP has developed for adult Drug Courts. Vol 1 represents the first of two parts covering best practice standards for a variety of topics.
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