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In partnership with OMNI Institute, the Peer Recovery Center of Excellence published this toolkit to help guide your program or organization through a values-driven process, resulting in an evaluation plan highlighting the most important aspects of peer recovery support. Information, worksheets, and resources are provided for each phase of the process, which includes identifying program values and related outcomes, choosing evaluation tools, plan implementation, and sustainability strategies.

Safe opioid prescribing is an organizational priority…

Please refer to this guide when requesting Naloxone as of July 1, 2024.

This information is to help you better understand the risks and benefits of taking an opioid medication that is prescribed to you. It may also help you communicate better with your doctor or healthcare provider when discussing your pain management.

Find Naloxone Now KY

This website hosted by KY.GOV links people to second-chance jobs, education, and recovery resources. 

Includes examples and cases for motivating patients (National Institute on Drug Abuse)

If we want addiction destigmatized, we need a language that’s unified. The words we use matter. Caution needs to be taken, especially when the disorders concerned are heavily stigmatized as substance use disorders are.

The Kentucky Department for Public Health Harm Reduction Program is excited to announce the launch of Find Naloxone Now KY, a statewide naloxone access portal and locator map that connects Kentuckians to 136 locations where naloxone is available locally and free of charge.

Kentucky Recovery Housing Network

Naloxone educational how-to and informational guide from the Department of Public Health

Includes basic information on overdose prevention and treatment as well as specific guidance and resources for health care providers and prescribers. (SAMHSA)

Kentucky Public Health

Kentucky Public Health

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation.

The Board has developed the following intervals for urine drug screens in order to provide some guidance to physicians…

This guide offers tips to help clinicians communicate the benefits of naloxone to patients, family members, and caregivers. (CDC)

Only 1 naloxone prescription is dispensed for every 70 high-dose opioid prescriptions. As a healthcare professional, you play a critical role in ensuring patients receive naloxone. (CDC)

The National Quality Partners™ (NQP) Opioid Stewardship Action Team brought together experts and recognized leaders from the private and public sectors committed to addressing the nation’s escalating opioid epidemic.

OPEN takes a preventative approach to the opioid epidemic by focusing on appropriate opioid prescribing and pain management best practices in acute care settings (surgery, dentistry, emergency medicine, obstetrics, pediatrics).

Acetaminophen Overdose Faxable Guidelines, Recommendations RE Cetylev, Antidote Stocking Guide, Ethanol Dosing for Toxic Alcohol Ingestion, Synthetic Cannabinoids

The Joint Commission

Alliant Quality

Colorado Hospital Association

American College of Surgeons Patient Education

American College of Emergency Physicians

National Institute on Drug Abuse

American College of Emergency Physicians

Kentucky Injury Prevention & Research Center

Pain can impact almost every aspect of your life, leading to limited physical functioning, poor mental health, and reduced quality of life. No matter the cause of your pain, you should receive access to safe and effective pain management options and good communication with your doctor to make informed decisions about what is right for you.

Mission Statement: To promote lifelong recovery from the chronic disease of addiction through recovery support services, advocacy, research and education.

Operation UNITE provides a toll-free Treatment Referral Line for anyone seeking assistance with a substance use disorder. 1-833-859-4357

Kentucky Pharmacists Association

Toll-free national overdose prevention, detection, life-saving crisis response and medical intervention services for people who use drugs while alone. Never Use Alone’s peer operators are available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Call Never Use Alone 877-696-1996, your Overdose Prevention Lifeline.

The purpose of FindRecoveryHousingNowKY.org (FRHNKY) is to link individuals in recovery to safe, quality, and available recovery housing in Kentucky.

When people call, text, or chat 988, they will be connected to trained counselors that are part of the existing Lifeline network. These trained counselors will listen, understand how their problems are affecting them, provide support, and connect them to resources if necessary.

Individuals seeking treatment for themselves or others – as well as family members who have questions or are in need of support – can call 1-833-8KY-HELP (1-833-859-4357) toll-free or text HOPE to 96714 and speak with a specialist about available treatment services most relevant to their needs. All calls are confidential.

Enables patients and family members to find information about available substance use disorder treatment options in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Assess OUD, opioid withdrawal, and treatment readiness for ED-initiated buprenorphine

Quantifies severity of opiate withdrawal

Yale School of Medicine

North Carolina Healthcare Association

Transforming Addiction Treatment Through 24/7 Access in Emergency Departments

The Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition improves the public health of Kentuckians by reducing overdoses, overdose deaths, and the transmission of blood-borne diseases such as HIV and HCV.

Find help and treatment

UNSHAME Kentucky is a public health campaign aimed to reduce the addiction-related stigma held by Kentuckians across the state.

Cabinet for Health and Family Services

Team Kentucky

Find a Prescription Drug Disposal Location

The Peer Support Specialist (PSS) plays an integral role in the ED Bridge Program. The success of the program will be dependent upon the PSS as well as the other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Recommendations, Key Points of Patient Education, Naloxone Products for Bystander Use, Pharmacist-Initiated Dispensing of Naloxone, Talking About Naloxone

KORE

Guide for Prescribers and Pharmacists

Includes Statewide Press Release, Hospital Press Release Template, Guidelines, Logo (JPG or PNG), Facebook Post, and Twitter Post

SAMSHA TIP 64

HEALing Communities Study KY and Voices of Hope Lexington

American Society of Addiction Medicine

CDC

908 KAR 2:220. Adult peer support specialist.

Primary Care and Outpatient Clinic

JAMA

Applying the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain

CDC

CDC

This guideline provides recommendations for clinicians providing pain care, including those prescribing opioids, for outpatients aged ≥18 years. (CDC)

Proposed Amendment

Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA): Client Outcome Measures for Discretionary Programs

Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA): Client Outcome Measures for Discretionary Programs

As a clinician, you have an important role in screening patients for a substance use disorder and connecting them to treatment resources. You may also be actively involved in their treatment. (CDC)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Oregon Pain Guidance

A Resource for Action of Policy, Programs, and Practices (CDC)

FDA outreach toolkit to help education patients on safe, proper disposal of opioids

Alliant Quality

This handout offers background information and tips for providers to keep in mind while using person-first language, as well as terms to avoid to reduce stigma and negative bias when discussing addiction.

Kentucky Opioid Response Effort

DOJ/DEA

St. Joseph’s Health

A Printable Pocket Guide, created in partnership with AHCCCS and the ASU Medical Advisory Board

Updates, Gaps, Inconsistencies, and Recommendations

NIH National Institute on Drug Abuse

CADCA

APTA White Paper

American Society for Pain Management Nursing Position Statement

Cleveland Clinic