Public Health Emergency
These resources can help individuals, families, and communities prepare, respond and recover.
Resources for Opioid Users and Service Providers
Disaster-related Resources
Disaster Distress Hotline
SAMHSA’s Disaster Distress Helpline provides 24/7, 365-day-a-year crisis counseling/support to people experiencing emotional distress related to disasters.
Find Treatment
Opioid Treatment Program Directory
Find opioid treatment programs in your state.
Buprenorphine Treatment Practitioner Locator
Find buprenorphine treatment practitioners in your state.
Find a Vivitrol Treatment Provider
Find vivitrol treatment providers in your state.
Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention
Harm Reduction Coalition
The Harm Reduction Coalition is a national advocacy and capacity-building organization that works to promote the health and dignity of individuals and communities who are impacted by drug use.
North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition
NCHRC is dedicated to the implementation of harm reduction interventions, public health strategies, drug policy transformation, and justice reform in North Carolina and throughout the American South.
Chicago Recovery Alliance
The Chicago Recovery Alliance offers harm reduction guidelines, information on safer injection, and overdose prevention resources.
Prevention Point Pittsburgh
Prevention Point Pittsburgh is a harm reduction organization and the only county-approved syringe exchange program in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
NY Harm Reduction Educators
NY Harm Reduction Educators offers syringe exchange, overdose prevention resources, and supportive counseling and family stabilization, outreach/education, and HIV & HEP C testing.
New York State's Opioid Overdose Prevention Program
Information and resources on opioid overdose prevention, including Naloxone law, regulations, and administration.
Policy and Law
Drug Policy Alliance
Join the Drug Policy Alliance in their efforts to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.
North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition
NCHRC is dedicated to the implementation of harm reduction interventions, public health strategies, drug policy transformation, and justice reform in North Carolina and throughout the American South.
Public Health Emergency
These resources can help individuals, families, and communities prepare, respond and recover.
Naloxone Overdose Prevention Laws
This dataset focuses on state laws that provide civil or criminal immunity to licensed healthcare providers or lay responders for opioid antagonist administration.
State Prescription Drug Laws
A variety of promising legal and regulatory strategies are available to states to address prescription drug misuse, abuse, and overdose.
Rapid Growth in Medicaid Spending on Medications to Treat Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose
Download the state-by-state data of total Medicaid spending on Buprenorphine, Naltrexone and Naloxone Prescriptions for Opioid Use Disorder.
Disaster preparedness among opioid treatment programs: Policy recommendations from state opioid treatment authorities
Abstract and access to the journal article on disaster preparedness.
Partnerships, tools, and tabletop exercise tackle preparedness, continuity of opioid treatment programs during a disaster
The effort involved 14 months of quarterly stakeholder workgroup meetings, a multisector tabletop exercise, clarified roles, and formalized agreement on how to dispense medication during disasters. Read more...
State Opioid Treatment Authorities
Contact information for treatment authorities in each state.
American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD)
AATOD's mission is to enhance the quality of patient care in treatment programs by promoting the growth and development of comprehensive opioid treatment services throughout the United States.