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Resources and Tools

A Systems Approach to an Integrated HIV and Opioid Use Disorder Workforce

State health departments must dedicate staff and time to ensure a consistent approach to HIV and opioid use disorder (OUD) service delivery. For some states, this means creating new staff roles.

Using Data Partnerships to Integrate HIV and Opioid Use Disorder Services

Data partnerships help coordinate HIV and opioid use disorder (OUD) services across state programs. These relationships can help state agencies identify service overlap and gaps, identify common goals, and initiate collaboration.

Episode 13: Caring for People Who Have Been Incarcerated: Substance Use Care in the Transition from Jail or Prison

Building on last month’s episode about providing HIV and substance use care for people who are incarcerated, this month the Boston Medical Center Team talks with Dr.

Guide for Developing HIV and Opioid Use Disorder Service Inventories and Using Geographic Mapping

This guide offers considerations for how state agency staff can develop and maintain an accessible, HIV and opioid use disorder (OUD) service inventory. This guide can be used by state agency HIV and OUD staff to:

Episode 11: The Case for Safe Consumption Spaces: Reducing Fatal Overdoses and Increasing Linkage to Care

In response to an increased risk of overdose, several communities in the U.S. are considering establishing spaces for people to use substances safely.

Coordinating Systems of Care for HIV and Opioid Use Disorder: A Systematic Review of Enablers and Barriers to Integrated Service Access, and Systems and Tools Required for Implementation

Individuals who have HIV who also use drugs experience increased age-matched morbidity and mortality in comparison with those with HIV who do not use drugs.

State Strategies in Action: Building Relationships with Your State Medicaid Agency to Support Peer Services

This document describes the critical role that peers have in developing and delivering care for people with HIV and OUD and how a state’s Medicaid program can serve as an essential fiscal resource in supporting peer services.

Words Matter: The Power of Language to Strengthen Services for HIV and Substance Use Disorder

This discussion guide is intended to elicit a comprehensive and concrete conversation about language, stigma, and discrimination as a means of strengthening care systems and ensuring that people who seek care for HIV and/or substance use disorders, including opioid use disorder, are treated with

Episode 7: Strengthening Methadone Programs: Advancing Policy and Practice in the U.S.

This month’s Connecting Care episode continues the conversation about barriers to methadone treatment for patients, stigma, and what we can learn from other countries to advance policy and practice for methadone in the US.

Episode 6: Strengthening Methadone Programs: A Harm Reduction Perspective

This month’s Connecting Care episode discusses the challenges associated with entering and staying in methadone treatment programs and opportunities to improve treatment experiences for all.