Resources for Medical and Care Providers

Medical and care providers play several important roles in responding to the opioid epidemic. Recognizing if a patient may be misusing substances, connecting clients to care, and preventing misuse are all common roles that providers may play. See below for additional information and resources to aid you in your professional work with clients.

• Addiction Medicine Toolkit and Training Modules (CDC)
• Clinical guidance for selected common acute pain conditions
• Linking mothers and babies to services: plans of safe care
• Naloxone providers in Florida
• Resources for Healthcare Administrators (CDC)
• SAMHSA Substance Use Treatment Locator
• Pain Management:
  • Opioids for Acute Pain: Get the facts (CDC)
  • Opioids for Acute Pain: What you need to know (CDC)
  • Conversation starter: Recently injured (CDC)

• Addressing the opioid epidemic: recommendations from CDC
• Addressing the opioid overdose epidemic in the Emergency Department
• Assessing and addressing opioid use disorder
• Communicating with patients
• Determining whether to initiate opioids for chronic pain
• Dosing and titration of opioids: how much, how long, and how and when to stop
• Fostering collaborative patient-provider relationships in pain management and opioid prescribing
• Implementing CDC’s Opioid prescribing guidelines into clinical practice
• Motivational interviewing – applying CDC’s guideline for prescribing opioids
• A nurse’s call to action for safer opioid prescribing practices
• Opioid use and pregnancy
• Reducing the risks of opioids
• Treating chronic pain without opioids
• Using the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to promote patient safety in opioid prescribing and dispensing

Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)

• Buprenorphine
• Methadone
• Naltrexone
• Naloxone