Apply the Principles
IMPLEMENTATION TOOLS
If you’re looking for specific guidance on how to incorporate the Principles, these supplemental documents can help assess your state or locality’s planning and help with spending allocation decisions.
From the Principles
Trackers
Guidance Reports
- From the War on Drugs to Harm Reduction
- Evidence Based Strategies for Abatement of Harms from the Opioid Epidemic
- Drugs at Work: What Employers Need to Know
- Bringing Science to Bear on Opioids
- Preparing States and Local Governments for Opioid Settlement Money
- Maximizing Public Benefit From Opioid Settlement Resources
- Maximizing the Impact of Opioid Litigation Settlements
- Evidence-Based Strategies for Preventing Opioid Overdose
- Evidence on Strategies for Addressing the Opioid Epidemic
- State Toolkit to End the Nation’s Drug Overdose Epidemic: Leading-Edge Actions and Strategies to Remove Barriers to Evidence-based Patient Care (AMA)
- Performance Measures for Medication-assisted Treatment in Correctional Settings: A Framework for Implementation (LAPPA)
- Peer Support Services in Justice and Public Safety Settings – a Planning and Implementation Toolkit (LAPPA)
- The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Opioid Crisis: Combating Discrimination Against People in Treatment or Recovery
- Engaging People Who Use Drugs in Prevention Efforts: Strategies for Reducing Stigma
- Shatterproof Addiction Stigma Index
- Federal Resources for Rural Communities to Help Address Substance Use Disorder and Opioid Misuse
- Opioid Settlement Toolkit for Community-Based Organizations
Websites
- SAMHSA
- CDC - Opioids
- Faces and Voices of Recovery
- NACo (Opioid Solutions Center)
- NACo (Planning Principles Toolkit)
- NACCHO (Health Equity in the Response to Drug Overdose)
- National Council for Mental Wellbeing (Tools for Overdose Prevention)
- National Harm Reduction Coalition
- NAADAC
- Vital Strategies State Guides
- Curated Library about Opioid Use for Decision-makers (CLOUD)
- Strategies for Effectively Allocating Opioid Settlement Funds
- Bloomberg American Health Initiative (BAHI)
- U-M Injury Prevention Center (Opioid and Overdose)
- Rural Health Information Hub (Rural Response to the Opioid Crisis)
- Rural Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) Toolkit
- Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy (Opioid Abatement Needs and Investment tool)
- Opioid Response Network
- IC&RC Harm Reduction Specialist Training
- National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD)
- National Association of Attorney Generals
- Reporting on Addiction
- Addiction Policy Forum
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- CDC Persons Who Inject Drugs
- CDC: National Harm Reduction Technical Assistance Center
- National Academy of Science and Medicine
- A Roadmap for Opioid Settlement Funds: Supporting Communities & Ending the Overdose Crisis
- Call to Action on Opioid Settlement Funds
The Principles for Community Advocates
The original Principles were create for state and local policy makers. But the Principles can also be used to help with community level advocacy. This document, created with our partners at Vital Strategies, can help local advocacy efforts to help ensure dollars are spent to save lives.
Drugs at Work: What Employers Need to Know
This website provides employers with several resources offering more insight into the effects of opioid use on the workplace and how investing in care for employees can be beneficial for both workers and the company.
Evidence-Based Practices Resource Center
This federal website “provides communities, clinicians, policy-makers and others with the information and tools to incorporate evidence-based practices into their communities or clinical settings.”