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The SAMHSA Program to Advance Recovery Knowledge (SPARK) supports transformational, recovery-oriented change for every state, tribal, and territorial behavioral health system and promotes equitable access to recovery supports in the United States. This resource center includes current information focused on equitable recovery supports including recovery-oriented care, recovery supports and services, and recovery-oriented systems for people with mental health/substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders. If you have questions about these resources or suggestions for recovery resources to be added, please email the SPARK team. Learn more about SPARK and request training and technical assistance.
Report outlining the effects of Long COVID, cognitive and psychiatric symptoms associated with the condition, the widening of health disparity gaps, future directions for Long COVID recovery, methodological limitations of existing studies,
and goals for future research.
The SAMHSA Harm Reduction Framework is the first document to comprehensively outline harm reduction and its role within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Framework will inform SAMHSA's harm reduction activities moving forward, as well as related policies, programs, and practices.
SAMHSA collaborated with federal, state, tribal, territorial, and local partners including peer specialists to develop the National Model Standards for Peer Support Certification, inclusive of substance use, mental health, and family peer certifications. These National Model Standards closely align with the needs of the behavioral health (peer) workforce, and subsequently, the over-arching goal of the national mental health strategy.
SAMHSA recognizes that people with lived experience are fundamental to improving mental health and substance use services and should be meaningfully involved in the planning, delivery, administration, evaluation, and policy development of services and supports to improve our processes and outcomes.
This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) reviews what is currently known about treating the medical, psychiatric, and SUD-related problems associated with the use of cocaine and MA and the misuse of prescribed stimulants.
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.
This advisory highlights strategies and considerations for SUD providers to effectively engage people with HIV in SUD treatment. It provides an overview of how SUD providers can integrate HIV services into their practice and address factors that affect an individual's ability to access and remain engaged in both SUD and HIV treatment.
This issue brief presents recent data on prevalence of opioid misuse and death rates in the Black/AA population; contextual factors and challenges to prevention and treatment; innovative outreach and engagement strategies to connect people to evidence-based treatment; and the importance of community voice.
Peer workers are emerging as important members of treatment teams. Help supervisors understand how to supervise peer workers in behavioral health services:
This four-part webcast series educates healthcare professionals about the importance of using approaches that are free of discriminatory attitudes and behaviors in treating individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and related conditions, as well as patients living their lives in recovery.
This handbook offers information about medication-assisted treatment and helps people living with opioid use disorder compare treatment options and discuss their preferences with a provider.
In 2015, SAMHSA led an effort to identify the critical knowledge, skills, and abilities leading to Core Competencies needed for peer workers in behavioral health services.
This manual provides guidance on the use of medication-assisted treatment for alcohol use misuse. It summarizes approved medications, screening and assessment, treatment planning, and patient monitoring.