Recovery High Schools
This Fact Sheet provides information about Recovery High Schools, which are schools specifically designed for students recovering from a substance use disorder....
Substance Misuse
Model Expanding Access to Peer Recovery Support Services Act
LAPPA’s Model Expanding Access to Peer Recovery Support Services Act was written in consultation with a host of subject matter experts including peer support workers and credentialing professionals. The model provides a legislative framework for implementing a responsive and cohesive peer support worker credentialing program and offers policymakers in jurisdictions with established peer support programs dynamic strategies to improve their existing peer support credentialing process. ...
Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets (CAHOOTS)
August 27, 2020
| Controlled Substances, Innovative Initiatives, Public Health, Public Safety, Recovery, Substance Misuse
The CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out on the Streets) mobile crisis intervention program responds to non-police emergencies in the cities of Eugene and Springfield, Oregon. CAHOOTS teams are staffed by a medic and a mental health crisis worker, and receive over 500 hours of training, which includes education on de-escalation and crisis intervention. ...
Local Police Departments Policies and Procedures – a Statistical Brief
August 26, 2020
| Controlled Substances, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Opioids, Prescription Drugs, Public Safety, Reports & Studies, Substance Misuse
The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics recently released statistical briefs on selected policies and procedures of local police departments and sheriffs’ offices, based on data from BJS’s 2016 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics survey. The tables show national estimates and distributions by population served on topics such as average hours of officer training by type of training, written community-policing plans, annual operating budgets, written directives for officer conduct, written documentation for officers’ display or discharge of firearms, authorized less-lethal techniques and restraints, and requirements for external investigations of deaths or use of force....
Privacy of Treatment Records
August 19, 2020
| Electronic Health Records, Fact Sheets, Health Data, Recovery, Substance Misuse, Treatments
This Fact Sheet provides information about federal laws related to privacy protections for treatment records....
Mobile Outreach Vans
This Fact Sheet provides information about mobile outreach vans and the services they provide to at-risk communities....
Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) Fact Sheet
May 19, 2020
| Controlled Substances, Fact Sheets, Law Enforcement, Opioids, Public Safety, Substance Misuse
This fact sheet provides basic information about the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program, also known as ODMAP....
The Opioid Crisis and the Black/African American Population: An Urgent Issue
This report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Behavioral Equity aims to convey the devestating impact the opioid crisis in having on African Americans....
Covid-19 and the Changes to Policies and Guidelines for Treating Substance Use Disorders
This document reviews COVID-19’s impact on American drug policy and how individuals with SUD will be able to receive treatment and services in the age of social distancing....
HOPE Initiative
March 24, 2020
| Criminal Justice, First Responders, Innovative Initiatives, Law Enforcement, Opioids, Public Health, Public Safety, Recovery, Substance Misuse, Treatments
The HOPE Initiative provides a daylong training program on substance use disorders, treatment, and recovery for state and local law enforcement officers, enabling them to help people obtain and sustain long-term recovery. All 39 Rhode Island law enforcement agencies have completed the training...