This session will provide an overview of opiate addiction, and the role of medication assisted treatments (MATs). The presenters will review recent research on effective treatment strategies for opioid addiction, with particular emphasis on adolescents. They will compare common myths and misconceptions about MATs. They will also review a specific tribal program model and their cultural approaches to MATs.
This publication describes a framework for planning, implementing, and operating a juvenile drug court.
This presentation by the One Sky Center provides an overview of methamphetamine use, its effects, and promising interventions in Indian Country.
This manual is designed to be a resource for those interested in creating a sustainable Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program for substance abuse in their agencies
This presentation prepared by DHHS provides an overview of prescription drug abuse and its current rate and impact in Indian Country
This report finds that adolescent smoking, drinking, misusing prescription drugs and using
illegal drugs is, by any measure, a public health problem of epidemic proportion, presenting clear and present danger to millions of America’s teenagers and severe and expensive long-range consequences for our entire population.
This article discusses how substance abuse treatment programs are integrating culture into treatment of American Indian and Alaska Native individuals.
This fact sheet describes results from a national study on the normalization of the abuse of prescription stimulants among young adults.
This article describes a collaboration between a university-based research psychologist
and a reservation-based substance abuse treatment program staff that has thus far resulted in a
detailed blueprint for a radically alternative, culturally-grounded intervention developed for reservation residents.
