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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![Connecting Communities to Substance Use Services: Practical Tools for First Responders](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/pep23-06-01-010.jpg?itok=zipxPYT8)
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This model standards guidance document, SAMHSA's National Model Standards for Peer Support Certification, is prepared in response to President Biden's 2022 Unity Agenda. This document outlines model standards for substance use disorder, mental health, and family/youth peer support certification.
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This guide reviews ways that telehealth modalities can be used to provide treatment for serious mental illness and substance use disorders among adults, distills the research into recommendations for practice, and provides examples of how these recommendations can be implemented.
![Advisory: Screening and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders among Adolescents (based on TIP 31-32)](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/pep20-06-04-008.png?itok=rqMSToVR)
This Advisory is based on TIP 31, Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) and TIP 32, Treatment of Adolescents with SUDs. It includes recommendations for engaging adolescents in SUD risk assessment, screening, and treatment.
![Advisory: Prescribing Pharmacotherapies for Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder (based on TIP 49)](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/PEP20-02-02-015.jpg?itok=_uin3Frk)
This Advisory, based on TIP 49, Incorporating Alcohol Pharmacotherapies Into Medical Practice, focuses on medication and related treatment decisions made after screening and assessment for AUD, and medically supervised withdrawal, if necessary. Alcohol consumption should not stop abruptly in those patients who have consumed alcohol regularly over a prolonged period of time. This Advisory is meant as an overview of AUD medications to facilitate abstinence.
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This report provides evidence-based practices for screening and assessment of adults in the justice system with mental illness, substance use disorders, or both. It discusses the importance of instrument selection for screening and assessment and provides detailed descriptions of recommended instruments.
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This pocket guide is designed as a quick reference for information about medication-assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder. It offers a checklist for prescribing medications to patients and provides a list of approved medications for treatment.
![Medication for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder: A Brief Guide](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/sma15-4907.jpg?itok=uqOFmYJZ)
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.
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This report presents 2012 to 2013 findings from a federally funded program that supports community-based mental health services for children experiencing serious emotional disturbances. It describes the system of care approach, service characteristics and use, and child outcomes.
![What does the Research Tell us about Services for Children in Therapeutic/Treatment Foster Care with Behavioral Health Issues?](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/sma14-4842.jpg?itok=4yn_jwC1)
This report discusses a technical expert panel convened to assess research about therapeutic services for youth living in foster care. It reviews the scientific evidence and expert panel input to identify action items and further research needs.
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