Trumbull County Mental Health & Recovery Board piloted a community survey in partnership with the Addiction Policy Forum to better understand substance use disorder (SUD) stigma, including attitudes, misconceptions, and policy support related to SUD services. Stigma remains one of the greatest barriers preventing individuals with SUD from seeking treatment and achieving long-term recovery. A total of 420 individuals responded to the survey administered by Trumbull County Ment

Voices of Hope, Lexington, piloted a community survey in partnership with the Addiction Policy Forum to better understand substance use disorder (SUD) stigma, including attitudes, misconceptions, and policy support related to SUD services. Stigma remains one of the greatest barriers preventing individuals with SUD from seeking treatment and achieving long-term recovery. A total of 219 individuals responded to the survey administered by Voices of Hope, Lexington, between Novem

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2025 A recent study  published in the Journal of Addictive Diseases highlights outcomes of the...

Last week, the Addiction Policy Forum joined the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP), the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), the National Council on Mental Wellbeing, and other national organizations in sending a letter to the administration to lift the current $75 max restriction on many federal grant programs on patient incentives for recovery behaviors or Contingency Management (CM) from opioid, stimulant, and alcohol use disorders. The letter state

November 7, 2024, Bethesda, Maryland  -- Today, the Addiction Policy Forum released a new video explainer on the science of addiction...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 24, 2024 -- The Addiction Policy Forum (APF), in collaboration with Governor DeWine’s RecoveryOhio initiative, the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, and the University of Delaware released a case study  detailing the outcomes of a community anti-stigma intervention delivered throughout Ohio. Addiction Policy Forum’s anti-stigma program, Responding to Addiction, was deployed in Ohio to increase addiction literacy, correct misconcep

BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 18, 2024 -- Today, the Addiction Policy Forum released new fentanyl awareness resources available in 12 languages to help increase knowledge of fentanyl-related overdose risks. The project is supported by the Cencora Impact Foundation and ECORN-MO to provide open-source, science-backed prevention materials for communities and families across the globe. Recent reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show overdose reaching devasta

Addiction Policy Forum announced the 117 nationwide Anti-Stigma Initiative Sites working to end the stigma of addiction in their communities

December 5, 2023 Bethesda, MD - The Opioid-Overdose Reduction Continuum of Care Approach (ORCCA) guide was released today to help...

100 Communities Join Large-Scale Effort to Address the Stigma of Addiction October 3, 2023 Bethesda, MD – Addiction Policy Forum launched...

New Opioid Prevention Resources Available in 12 Languages (June 12, 2023) North Bethesda, Maryland - Today, the Addiction Policy Forum...

For Release Wednesday, July 20, 2023 A new Addiction Policy Forum-led study explores stigmatizing and non-stigmatizing imagery for...

Addiciton Policy Forum is excited to announce a new partnership with the Providers Clinical Support System (PCSS). PCSS is a program...

APF report shares perspectives from patients, families, and practitioners on how OTC naloxone access is one key part of responding to the...

APF Executive Director Jessica Hulsey spoke before a Joint meeting of the Nonprescription Drugs and the Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug...

New APF eCourse Available Synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, were involved in 65% of all overdose deaths in the US by June, 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Law enforcement agencies report that fentanyl is present in all 50 states in urban, suburban and rural communities. The Addiction Policy Forum, in partnership with the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), developed an eCourse, Fentanyl Facts

APF Board Member is a guest of the First Lady Two years ago, Doug Griffin wrote a letter to President Biden about his daughter Courtney,...

enCompass Ohio Pilot Study: Findings on a Novel Intervention for Improving Addiction Literacy and Decreasing Stigma

Addiction Policy Forum Partners with Michigan State University, Henry Ford Health, and Brown University on New Center TW: The following...

Press Release: APF Releases Comprehensive Report of Evidence-Based Strategies Addressing the Opioid Epidemic