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The Institute of Medicine's continuum of care categorizes behavioral health services into four areas: promotion, prevention, treatment, and recovery. This resource explores how these services align, offering support from promoting wellness to aiding in long-term recovery. It provides a structured framework for addressing substance misuse across various stages of care, ensuring comprehensive support for individuals and communities.
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This tool educates prevention professionals about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), including what ACEs are, their prevalence, their impact on substance use and other behavioral health outcomes, and how to integrate addressing them into existing prevention.
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This tool presents a four-step model that SEW chairs—or others responsible for creating or rebuilding their SEWs—can use to strengthen or revitalize their epidemiological workgroups.
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This tool examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on alcohol-related deaths. The brief provides insights into the increase in alcohol use, the geographic distribution of alcohol-related deaths, gender differences, and the effects on various types of counties. It highlights the importance of understanding these trends and geographic disparities for the development of effective prevention interventions and strategies.
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This tool helps practitioners in locating data on risk factors for opioid overdose and offers insights into various risk factors, data sources, and indicators related to opioid use and misuse. It helps practitioners better understand and target their prevention efforts, identify new data sources, find proxy measures for specific factors when direct data is unavailable, and identify potential partners who collect relevant data.
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This tool provides an overview of key national substance use surveillance systems and surveys in the U.S. These systems collect and analyze data related to substance consumption, misuse, and their consequences to inform public health efforts. Examples include America's Poison Centers, RADARS System, StreetRx, YRBSS, BRFSS, PRAMS, WONDER, NSDUH, TEDS, and ODMAP, each serving distinct purposes in monitoring and addressing substance use trends.
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This tool provides information on data sources and measures to help practitioners understand the non-medical use of prescription drugs in their communities.
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This tool offers a comprehensive listing of available data resources and surveys developed by and for a range of federal agencies and that collect data on marijuana use and its consequences.
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This tool provides information on how national surveys measure youth marijuana use, as well as factors and consequences associated with such use.
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This resource is designed to help epidemiological workgroups re-conceptualize their purpose and function, drawing on lessons learned from experienced workgroup members.
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This tool presents case examples of fictional communities each dealing with distinct challenges related to opioid misuse and overdoses. It outlines how these communities applied the five steps of the SPF to tackle their opioid-related issues, providing insights into addressing the epidemic and informing future strategic planning efforts for prevention practitioners.
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This resource examines cultural-specific risk and protective factors related to substance misuse and mental well-being in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. It provides research findings to assist in culturally responsive prevention planning, emphasizing the importance of understanding and respecting their diverse cultural backgrounds and practices.
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