Published: September 2020
This updated TIP is designed to help providers and others better understand how to identify, manage, and prevent substance misuse in older adults. The TIP describes the unique ways in which the signs and symptoms of substance use disorder (SUD) manifest in older adults; drug and alcohol use disorder screening tools, assessments, and treatments specifically tailored for older clients' needs; the interaction between SUDs and cognitive impairment; and strategies to help providers improve their older clients' social functioning and overall wellness.
This newly updated Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) helps providers and administrators better understand how to include families in substance use disorder treatment and services. This TIP, first published in 2004, has been revised to reflect new research and developments.
Published: October 2015
This resource summarizes guidelines for screening, assessing, and providing comprehensive treatment for issues related to child abuse and neglect among people in substance use disorder treatment. It provides strategies for breaking the intergenerational cycle and discusses therapeutic issues for counselors.
This guide contains patient materials for an intensive outpatient treatment course for stimulant misuse. It provides handouts to use in individual and conjoint sessions, and sessions on early recovery skills and relapse prevention.
Published: July 2014
This workbook contains useful self-help tools and concepts to strengthen recovery from the misuse of stimulants. The workbook is designed as a pocket-size journal with space to record ideas and reminders about relapse triggers, mooring lines, and reasons for staying abstinent.
Published: January 2011
This document examines treatment issues for both adult survivors of child abuse or neglect and adults in treatment who may be abusing or neglecting their own children.
Published: January 2008
This document spotlights the important moment in recovery when an offender who has received substance use disorder treatment while incarcerated is released into the community. It provides those who work in the criminal justice system and in community-based treatment programs with guidelines for ensuring continuity of care for the offender client.
Millions of Americans have a substance use disorder. Find a treatment facility near you.
1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Free and confidential support for people in distress, 24/7.
Find treatment facilities confidentially and anonymously, 24/7.
1-800-662-HELP (4357)
Treatment referral and information, 24/7.