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This document updates SAMHSA’s 2018 document and outlines best practices for the implementation and operation of recovery housing. These best practices are intended to serve as a tool for states, governing bodies, providers, recovery house operators, and other interested stakeholders to improve the health of their citizens, reduce incidence of overdose, and promote recovery housing as a key support strategy in achieving and sustaining recovery.
View ResourceThis 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.
View ResourceThis guide highlights strategies for behavioral health and housing providers to conduct outreach and engage with individuals experiencing homelessness, initiate use of behavioral health treatment as they wait to receive stable housing and retain them in their recovery efforts once housed.
View ResourceAlcohol 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.
View ResourceThis document evaluates states’ use of best practices in preventing underage drinking, as required by the STOP Act.
View ResourceThis 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.
View ResourceThis 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.
View ResourceThis fact sheet developed by CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) helps employers understand the risk of opioid overdose and allows them to decide if they should establish a workplace naloxone availability and use program.
View ResourceSAMHSA’s updated Overdose Prevention and Response Toolkit provides guidance to a wide range of individuals on preventing and responding to an overdose. The toolkit also emphasizes that harm reduction and access to treatment are essential aspects of overdose prevention.
View ResourceThis guide includes various approaches and considerations in measuring alcohol outlet density and the pros/cons of each strategy.
View ResourceWith this Guide, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism introduces a simple, quick, empirically derived tool for identifying youth at risk for alcohol-related problems.
View ResourceThis guide is designed to help an individual or small planning team adapt alcohol SBI to the unique operational realities of their primary care practice.
View ResourceThis guide reviews screening tools for alcohol use and interventions for pregnant women and women of childbearing age to prevent fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).
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