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.

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 guide provides information and practices that behavioral health providers can implement in their daily practice with patients or clients who are involved in the criminal justice system.

Developed by AHRQ, this report reviews the scientific and grey literature about implementing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD) in rural primary care settings.

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.

This toolkit supports a structured, team-based approach to improving the management of patients who take opioids to ease chronic pain.

This guide from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) includes information on assessment, treatment overview (including treatment plans, patient participation, and counseling), and all the medications available to treat opioid use and overdose. It also provides links to find a provider and support groups for patients and families.

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.

The ASAM criteria is the most widely used and comprehensive set of guidelines for placement, continued stay and transfer/discharge of patients with addiction and co-occurring conditions.

The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) developed the Appropriate Use of Drug Testing in Clinical Addiction Medicine document to provide guidance about the effective use of drug testing in the identification, diagnosis, treatment, and promotion of recovery for patients with, or at risk for, addiction.

The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance) has released a new report. It includes the first-ever recommendations on suicide-related standard care for primary care, behavioral health care, and emergency department settings.

This report provides current, comprehensive data on the use of restricted housing, and also documents efforts across the country to reduce the number of people in restricted housing and to reform the conditions in which isolated prisoners are held in order to improve safety for prisoners, staff, and communities at large.

This toolkit for schools assists schools in implementing a coordinated response to the suicide death of a student.

This manual explains peer recovery support services designed and delivered by people in recovery from substance use disorders.

This guide helps clinicians influence the change process in their clients by incorporating motivational interventions into substance use disorder treatment programs.

This guide offers best practices for treating women living with substance use disorders in co-ed treatment and recovery settings.

This manual assists behavioral health professionals who treat people living with substance use disorders in understanding the implications of a hepatitis diagnosis.

This handbook provides guidance on using the web-based, multimedia tool Decisions in Recovery: Medications for Opioid Addiction.

This manual presents guidelines for clinical supervision in the substance use disorder treatment field.

This guide assists providers in offering treatment to women living with substance use disorders.

This manual provides clinical practice guidelines for using medications in the treatment of alcohol use disorder.

This guide helps substance use counselors treat clients with symptoms of depression and substance use conditions.

This TIP, Substance Abuse: Clinical Issues in Intensive Outpatient Treatment, was written to help clinicians address the expansion of intensive outpatient treatment (IOT) represented by the development and adoption of new approaches to treat a wider variety of clients.

This manual provides guidelines for administrators on addressing issues in outpatient treatment for alcohol and substance abuse.

This guide educates substance use counselors and clinicians about detoxification and withdrawal.