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Resources
“The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.”
-Russell Brand
For Patients and Families
For Treatment Professionals
- Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA)- SAMHSA Works to improve the quality and availability of substance
abuse prevention, alcohol and drug addiction treatment, and mental
health services.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-
NIDA seeks to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug
use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and
public health.
- Article- Effectiveness of Methadone and Buprenorphine
- Faces and Voices of Recovery-
Dedicated to raising awareness and understanding of recovery, developing
recovery support services, and reducing discrimination towards those in
recovery.
- Get Smart About Drugs-
A DEA resource for parents, educators & caregivers.
- Article- How Opioid Abuse Leads to Heroin Use
- MakeTheConnection.net-
Connects veterans, their family members and friends with information,
resources, and solutions to issues affecting their lives.
- Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)- - Apply for a Pratitioner Waiver
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)- Additional Information-
- Article- Medications to Treat Opioid Use Disorder - Article- Heroin Research Report
- Article- Health Effects Chart of Heroin
- American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)-
- Article- The Definition of Addiction - Article- Opioid Addiction 2016 Facts & Figures
- American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence
(AATOD)
- Addiction Treatment Forum-
Substance abuse news for opioid treatment programs.
- PEW-
- Article- MAT Improves Outcomes for Patients With Opioid Use
Disorder
- North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services-
- Resources for Providers
For the Community
The goal of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is to assist patients with in recovery from drug dependency. This includes reducing illegal opioid use along with the associated consequences on the user, their families, and the community. MAT with the use of Suboxone is a well studied forms of treatment that has been proven to be effective for opioid dependence. Patients in MAT greatly benefit by gaining back physical stability to improve their health, employability, home stability, and relationships with their family and community. The community benefits from reduced crime, death, disease, and drug use.
Positive effects on the community from MAT services:
- Contributes to public safety and safer neighborhoods- - Reduction of painkiller and heroin addicts - Reduced criminal behavior - Improved social functioning, domestic relations and child rearing
- Improved health and wellness in the community- - Reduced rates of infection of communicable diseases including HIV,
AIDS, Hepatitis C and other blood-borne pathogens
- Reduced pressures on public services, enabling emergency, trauma
and urgent care centers to be run more efficiently and effectively - Patients’ improved health, pregnancy outcomes and psychological
well-being - Lowered mortality rates of opioid dependent citizens
- Improved productivity- - Patients are able to acquire and maintain employment - Clinics serve patients who live in the community and are everyday
citizens like lawyers, engineers, secretaries, truck drivers, roofers,
gardeners, teachers, salespersons, architects, computer techs, etc.,
helping them perform better at work and for their patrons - Greater socioeconomic contributions to the community from opioid
dependent citizens