Clinicians can use this conversation starter from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which includes examples of how to use language to destigmatize the disease of addiction even when patients use stigmatizing slang. It describes techniques for clinicians to use when talking with patients and family members about substance use disorders.
This 11-minute video was developed by the Opioid Response Network in partnership with the American College of Emergency Physicians and includes interviews with people with lived experience who describe how compassionate emergency department clinicians helped reduce their shame and led them to recovery.
This report from the National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare was developed for healthcare providers and includes strategies for disrupting stigma at all levels including administrators and frontline staff in their interactions with families.
The National Institute of Health Heal Initiative "Breaking Through the Wall of Stigma" was developed for healthcare providers to help address stigma. The videos below take less than two minutes to describe the work of the National Institutes of Health Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (HEAL), which funds research to help reduce stigma among health care providers toward people with substance use disorders.
This educational resource series was developed by IPRO QIN-QIO for healthcare providers and explores chronic pain from the biopsychosocial perspective of three domains: biological (e.g., tissue damage, inflammation); psychosocial (e.g., thoughts and emotions affect pain, memories of pain; and social/sociological (e.g., socioeconomic, gender, ethnicity, isolation).
This succinct Reimbursement & Resources for Screening & Supporting Patients with Substance Use Disorder resource was developed by IPRO QIN-QIO for healthcare providers and people with Medicaid and Medicare.
This IPRO QIN-QIO Nursing Home Naloxone Policy and Procedure Toolkit was developed by a workgroup of nursing home physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, nursing home provider organizations, harm reduction experts, and quality improvement specialists for nursing home providers and is intended to provide easy to adapt policies and procedures for nursing homes that need to implement or improve their emergency response to opioid overdose, which includes naloxone administration.
This beneficiary-facing fact sheet was developed by Quality Insights as a lower-literacy resource to help educate the public on the importance of vaccination and to highlight seven key takeaways to know about Long-COVID (or Post-COVID Syndrome).
