This guide introduces substance use disorder treatment and family therapy, and features models for integrating the two approaches.

Prevention professionals use SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) as a comprehensive guide to plan, implement, and evaluate prevention practices and programs.

This manual helps communities plan and deliver substance use prevention strategies.

This resource guide for parents offers advice on keeping children substance free, reviews statistics about adolescent substance use, and provides tips on good communication.

This TIP is intended to help a wide range of providers become familiar with the need for integrating vocational services with substance abuse treatment.

This toolkit offers tools and guidance to facilitate the implementation of the evidence-based practice of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT).

This TIP is intended to help a wide range of providers become familiar with the various issues surrounding clients with both substance use and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and to foster a better understanding of the roles of other providers.

The purpose of this guide is to help prevention practitioners use the results of prevention research to address drug abuse among children and adolescents in communities across the country.

This guide highlights the use of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder in drug courts.

This guide describes core elements of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) programs for people living with or at risk for substance use disorders.

This manual offers guidance to clinicians on implementing drug testing in their practice. It presents the mechanics of testing, and outlines steps for preparing staff to carry out this work.

This Clinical Guide provides comprehensive, national guidance for optimal management of pregnant and parenting women with opioid use disorder and their infants. The Clinical Guide helps healthcare professionals and patients determine the most clinically appropriate action for a particular situation and informs individualized treatment decisions.

This manual lists competencies for effective supervision in substance use disorder treatment programs.

This guide enhances the competencies of substance use disorder treatment counselors. It discusses patient assessment and screening, treatment planning, referral, service coordination, counseling, family and community education, and cultural competency.

This website discusses evidence-based suicide prevention and provides sources of information regarding evidence-based programs and literature reviews.

This manual assists clinicians with implementing technology-assisted care. It highlights the importance of using technology-based assessments and interventions in behavioral health treatment services.

This guide helps professional care providers and administrators understand the role of culture in the delivery of mental health and substance use services.

This guide reviews screening tools for alcohol use and interventions for pregnant women and women of childbearing age to prevent fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).

Technical brief describes and compares four core management strategies to reduce psychiatric readmissions—length of stay for inpatient care, transition support services, short-term alternatives to psychiatric rehospitalization, and long-term approaches for reducing psychiatric rehospitalization—for patients at high risk of psychiatric readmission.

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.

This manual provides guidelines for the operation of opioid treatment programs (OTPs). It covers patient assessment, treatment planning, and recovery care.

This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent suicide.

This guide addresses specific treatment needs of adult men living with substance use disorders.

The guideline describes the critical decision points in the management of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and provides clear and comprehensive evidence based recommendations incorporating current information and practices for practitioners throughout the DoD and VA Health Care systems.

This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) reviews the use of the three Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications used to treat OUD—methadone, naltrexone, and buprenorphine—and the other strategies and services needed to support recovery for people with OUD