AddictionCounselorCE offers 462 Continuing Education (CE) courses for Addiction/Substance Abuse Counselors and other professionals working in addiction counseling.

This tool is designed to help prevention practitioners better understand where and how to focus efforts to prevent overdose deaths. Specifically, it provides an overview of:

• Risk factors associated with opioid overdose;
• Evidence-based strategies for overdose prevention; and
• Challenges specific to implementing harm reduction strategies.

Author: Publisher: Prevention Solutions

For a change as crucially important as closing health equity gaps, health care leaders need to anticipate some pushback. This article provides guidance for health care leaders to effectively prepare for and address pushback on health equity, including using data and stories to harness curiosity as an antidote to fear and resistance.

Author: Mate K. Publisher: Institute for Healthcare Improvement

This tool presents examples from four states to help evaluators and other data collectors improve sample representativeness and survey response rates when gathering primary data.

Author: Publisher: Prevention Solutions

We have long known that substance use is driven by a complex set of factors and circumstances. Each of our decisions is influenced by our circumstances, consciously and unconsciously. That’s why substance use prevention should be comprehensive – addressing as many of the primary drivers of substance use as possible. Recently, there has been a push to encourage health care stakeholders to focus on how the context of our lives affects our health, notably in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Healthy People 2030 initiative. The factors that comprise this context are referred to collectively as the social determinants of health (SDOH). This brief will explain the SDOH, map the concept of SDOH onto more “traditional” prevention frameworks, and explain how substance use prevention can play a role in such large-scale changes.

Author: Carnevale Associates, LLC

Publisher: Carnevale Associates, LLC

Treatment agencies for substance use disorders are an important element in our nation’s health care delivery system. The ADEPT (formerly AdCare) Addiction Counselor Education program assists in the professional development of people wanting to be involved in this important and growing health care service field. All courses are taught or supervised by professionals in the substance use disorder treatment services field.

ADEPT Educational Institute of MA (formerly AdCare Educational Institute) develops statewide trainings, education and logistics management with the MA DPH. Training calendars include: Substance Use & Addictions, LifeSkills, and Suicide Prevention.

Formerly called AdCare Educational Institute of New England, ADEPT offers New England Schools of Addiction Studies, Prevention Studies, & Best Practices; and Annual Addiction Medicine Conference for General Healthcare Providers and Addictions Professionals.

A-CRA is a developmentally appropriate, evidence-based treatment for youth and young adults with substance misuse or substance use disorders, which was developed by Chestnut Health Systems.

Current and future adolescent health professionals can obtain access training which prepares them to have vital conversations with adolescents about their substance use.