Health care providers serve in many 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.
Other substances (such as tianeptine) and substances that mimic opioids (kratom) are increasingly being used, upping the risk of overdose and addiction. The National Institute on Drug Abuse provides more information on substances of concern.
General Resources
- Buprenorphine Practitioner Locator
- Florida Coordinated Opioid Recovery (CORE) Network
Local CORE #: 352-266-4769 - Naloxone Providers in Florida
- Overdose Prevention Tools for Health Care Providers
- Polysubstance Overdose
- Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
- Florida’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
- SAMHSA Substance Use Treatment Locator
- Words Matter – Preferred Language for Talking About Addiction
- Xylazine – Clinical Management and Harm Reduction Strategies for Patients
Pregnancy and Opioid Use
- Clinical Guidance – Treating Pregnant and Parenting Women with Opioid Use Disorder and Their Infants
- Conversation Starter – Talking with Patients About Pregnancy and Managing Pain
- Fact Sheets – Opioids/Narcotics and Pregnancy
- Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative Toolbox Resource List
- Linking Mothers and Babies To Services: Plans of Safe Care
- Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome
- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Initiative Toolbox (for hospital teams)
- Overview – Opioid Use and Pregnancy
- Treat and Manage Infants Affected By Prenatal Opioid Exposure
- Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Before, During, and After Pregnancy
- Additional Resources Relating to Pregnancy and Substance Use
Provider Trainings and Toolkits
- 2022 Clinical practice guidelines partner toolkit
- 2022 Clinical practice guideline for prescribing opioids for pain
- Addiction medicine toolkit
- Buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid use disorder
- Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative Toolbox Resource list
- Managing pain and treating opioid use disorder in the emergency department
- Motivational interviewing
- Naloxone toolkit
- Neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Prenatal opioid exposure – caring for families
- Substance use disorder training/X-waiver
- Tapering opioids
- Your words matter – language showing compassion and care for women, infants, families, and communities impacted by substance use disorder