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Connecting Communities to Substance Use Services: Practical Tools for First Responders

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This 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.

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PEP23-06-01-010
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August 2023

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