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Best Practices: Treating a Patient with an Opioid Overdose

When someone has been revived from an opioid overdose reversal medication, they come out of it very scared, angry and confused.

Best Practices: Medication-Assisted Treatment

It's essential that we use the scientific process to guide how we implement treatment.

Best Practices: Recovery

There are 23 million Americans that are in recovery and we need to make sure that everyone, families included have resources and support.

Best Practices: Addiction in America

We have 21 million Americans right now who are struggling with a substance use disorder.

Best Practices: SBIRT - Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment

SBIRT is a concept that has been utilized in other disease processes but really addiction is its primary usage.

Best Practices: What is Addiction?

Nobody chooses addiction. This isn't a choice for us. We aren't here because we're bad people, we're here because we have an illness.

The Addiction Series: Episodes 1-3

ADDICTION episodes 1-3 dispel the myths. Stories that turn the science of addiction into stories that stick.

The Addiction Series: Episode 3, Understanding Severity

Like other chronic illnesses, substance use disorders get worse over time. There are 3 levels of severity: mild, moderate, and severe.

The Addiction Series: Episode 2, Whirlpools of Risk

People have different risk factors that make them more vulnerable to developing SUDs.

The Hijacker

“The Hijacker” explainer video breaks down how repeated substance misuse changes the brain

Animated video series from Addiction Policy Forum on Addiction

Animated video series from Addiction Policy Forum turns the science of addiction into stories that stick Series seeks to debunk myths &...

Best Practices for Emergency Departments to Address Addiction

We have 21 million Americans right now who are suffering with a substance use disorder.

Maryland Overdose Response Program

Maryland Overdose Response Program developed to address rising drug overdose deaths throughout the state.

Brain Imaging Reveals What Causes Drug Addiction in Humans

Doctor Nora Volkow, MD, research psychiatrist and scientist, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National...

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