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Trainings: Substance Abuse Treatment, Child Welfare, and Court Professionals
NCSCW offers free online tutorials for a wide variety of professionals related to substance abuse disorders, treatment, and recovery. NCSACW requires users to register online before access these courses:
- Understanding Child Welfare and the Dependency Court: A Guide for Substance Abuse Treatment Professionals
- Understanding Substance Use Disorders, Treatment, and Family Recovery: A Guide for Child Welfare Professionals
- Understanding Substance Use Disorders, Treatment, and Family Recovery: A Guide for Legal Professionals
Guidance: Brief Interventions and Brief Therapies for Substance Abuse
This Quick Guide describes brief intervention and brief therapy techniques for treatment of alcohol abuse and drug abuse, including brief cognitive-behavioral, strategic/ interactional, humanistic and existential, psychodynamic, family, and time-limited group therapies.
Fact Sheet: Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction: Facts for Families and Friends
This resource provides families and friends with information about medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction. It describes prescribed opioid medications, their proper use and side effects, withdrawal symptoms, and how medications fit with counseling in the recovery process.
Video: The Sobering Consequences of Underage Drinking
Supported by a grant from BJA, the Center for Public Safety Innovation and the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America released a video featuring a panel of experts discussing trends in underage drinking, consequences of underage drinking on adolescent health, and intervention and prevention strategies.
Resource: Center for Integrated Health Solutions
This website features information to help healthcare providers and organizations learn about Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), an evidence-based practice used to identify, reduce, and prevent the use and abuse of alcohol and drugs. The site includes basic information, training materials, workflow charts and diagrams, and information on financing.
Report: A Day in the Life of College Students: Substance Use Facts
This report (PDF, 7 pages) presents facts about substance use among college students, ages 18 to 22, using combined data from the 2011 to 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. According to the report, more than one-third of college students engaged in binge drinking, and about one in five used an illicit drug in the last month.
Resource: Substance Use and Suicide: A Nexus Requiring a Public Health Approach
This article (PDF, 19 pages) summarizes the relationship between substance use and suicide and provides state and tribal prevention professionals with information on the scope of the problem, an understanding of traditional barriers to collaboration and current programming, and ways to work together on substance misuse and suicide prevention strategies.
Resources: Tools to Assess Community Readiness to Prevent Substance Misuse
These tools (PDF, 4 pages) are available for practitioners to assess community readiness for preventing substance misuse.
Resource: Preventing Prescription Drug Misuse
This decision-support tool presents key findings from a review of current research on the non-medical use of prescription drugs. It presents a summary of risk and protective factors associated with prescription drug misuse, as well as programs and strategies shown to be effective in addressing these factors.
Resource: Academic Performance, Retention, and Alcohol Use
This article (PDF, 3 pages) discusses the effect of alcohol on academic performance, retention, and college graduation. It also describes evidence-based strategies college and universities can use to address high-risk drinking and shares what some institutions are doing to prevent risky alcohol use and promote healthy decision making.
Report: Substance Use among Full-Time College Students
This report uses data from the 2012-2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to explore how full-time college students differ from their peers in their use of and attitudes toward drugs and alcohol. The data show while full-time college students were more likely to be alcohol drinkers than others their age, same-aged young adults who were not full-time college students were more likely to be cigarette users.
Resource: Tribal Behavioral Health Agenda
This agenda, developed in collaboration with the National Indian Health Board, (PDF, 96 pages) highlights how behavioral health challenges affect Native communities and describes strategies to reduce these problems and improve the behavioral health of American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN). Tribal leaders, tribal council members, tribal administrators, AI/AN health advocates, and federal agency representatives can use this resource to collaborate on actions to address the behavioral health needs of AI/ANs and to chart priorities for funding, programs, and policy decisions.
Resource: Engage, Involve, Empower: Family Engagement in Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts
This technical assistance brief provides recommendations for successful family engagement within a juvenile drug treatment court program. Prepared by the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice in partnership with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, the brief also includes a self-assessment tool and descriptions of two juvenile drug treatment courts that demonstrate a strong commitment to family engagement. Professionals working in juvenile drug treatment courts can use this brief to assess their current levels of family engagement and enhance their efforts to engage families.
Resource: SAMHSA’s Data Archive
This website features SAMHSA data collections, maps, reports, public use data files, analysis tools, and other information related to data. Users can browse by topic or publication type and request data based on a specific need.
Report: Behavioral Health Barometer, Volume 4
This report presents national data about the prevalence of behavioral health conditions, including the rate of serious mental illness, suicidal thoughts, substance use, and underage drinking. The report also highlights the percentages of individuals who seek treatment for these conditions.
Report: Underage Binge Drinking Varies Within and Across States
This report presents national, regional, and state estimates of past month binge drinking among young people aged 12-20. Compared with 2010–12, the estimate of past month underage binge drinking in 2012–14 was lower in the nation as a whole (15.87% vs. 14.44%). Although the national trend in underage drinking is declining, underage drinking remains a concern in the U.S., and states and local communities experience the negative health, social, and economic consequences every year.
Resource: A Guide to the Guidelines: Practical Tips for Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts to Implement
This guide (PDF, 13 pages), developed by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, describes the objectives outlined in OJJDP’s Juvenile Drug Treatment Guidelines (PDF, 60 pages) and provides suggested short-term and long-term actions related to each objective. Juvenile drug treatment courts (JDTC) can use this information to guide the implementation, operation, and evaluation of their practices.
Resource: Drug Courts
This article (PDF, 2 pages) provides an overview of the varying types of drug courts. Criminal defendants and offenders, family members, criminal justice practitioners, and drug treatment professionals can use this information to understand the purpose and function of drug courts and to find related research and resources.
Report: Understanding Adolescent Inhalant Use
This report uses 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health data to explore inhalant use among U.S. adolescents aged 12 and older. The report highlights facts about adolescent inhalant use and types of inhalants commonly used by teens.
Report: Substance Use Among 12th Grade Aged Youths, by Dropout Status
This report uses combined data from the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health from 2002 to 2014 to identify 12th grade-aged youth who had dropped out of school and to describe their substance use compared to their peers who were currently attending school.
Report: Children Living with Parents Who Have a Substance Use Disorder
This report presents estimates of the number of children aged 17 or younger who lived with a parent with a substance use disorder, alcohol use disorder, or illicit drug use disorder based on combined data from the 2009 to 2014 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health.
Report: Psychotropic Medication Use among Children Who Are Subjects of Child Protective Services Investigations: Does Court Oversight Matter?
This brief examines courts’ roles in overseeing psychotropic medication prescriptions for children who were the subjects of child maltreatment investigations. It also explores the relationship between oversight roles, rates of psychotropic medication use, and rates at which children were re-reported to child protection agencies.
Resource: Reports and Detailed Tables from the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
These reports and detailed tables present findings and data based on results of the 2016 NSDUH, an annual survey that provides national and state-level data on mental health and the use of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs in the United States. Researchers, substance abuse and mental health practitioners, policymakers, and other stakeholders can use this information to better understand the scope and trends of substance use and treatment, and mental health disorders and treatment, across the country.
Resource: Behavioral Health Among College Students Information and Resource Kit
This resource discusses substance misuse, tobacco use, and mental health issues among college students. College and university prevention practitioners, health center staff, and administrators can use this resource to learn more about the prevalence and causation factors of these issues among college students and to locate prevention materials.
Resource: Underage Drinking: Myths vs. Facts
This fact sheet compares the myths and facts about the prevalence of alcohol use among youth. Practitioners who work with teens and pre-teens can display this poster in their center or office to promote conversations about underage drinking and alcohol misuse.