Integrating behavioral health and community systems to enhance the access, provision, and quality of substance use disorder, opioid use disorder, and mental health services.
What's Happening
Responding To Addiction – A Two-Part Series
07
Apr 2026
Part 1 This training was developed by the Addiction Policy Forum and includes an overview of addiction, understanding treatment and recovery processes, and tips for communicating with someone who is struggling with addiction. This will be a two-part series,...
Introducing the Brain Injury Peer Support Curriculum: An Interactive Training
15
Apr 2026
Join us for an engaging and interactive webinar introducing the new Brain Injury Peer Support Curriculum, developed specifically for peer support professionals who work in behavioral health. This session will provide an overview of the curriculum’s development, a guided...
Responding To Addiction – A Two-Part Series
21
Apr 2026
Part 2 This training was developed by the Addiction Policy Forum and includes an overview of addiction, understanding treatment and recovery processes, and tips for communicating with someone who is struggling with addiction. This will be a two-part series,...
Need to Know
Prevention
“The National Mental Health and Substance Use Policy Laboratory (Policy Lab) leads the equitable coordination, analysis, development, and implementation of national policy to promote mental health, prevent substance misuse and addiction, provide treatment and support recovery.”
https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/who-we-are/offices-centers/nmhsupl
Risk Reduction
“Risk reduction is critical to keeping people who use drugs alive and as healthy as possible, and is a key pillar in the multi-faceted Health and Human Services’ Overdose Prevention Strategy.”
Treatment
“The use of medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.”
https://www.samhsa.gov/medications-substance-use-disorders
Recovery
“Recovery signals a dramatic shift in the expectation for positive outcomes for individuals who experience mental and substance use conditions or the co-occurring of the two.”