Resources

Resources

Families Helping Families

IU's Responding to the Addictions Crisis Grand Challenge wanted to give a voice to those who have suffered a tragic loss from an overdose and to honor their loved ones by providing a platform to tell their stories. Moderated by Bernice Pescosolido, an AGC principal investigator and a nationally known professor of sociology and director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research, the video series includes testimony from parents, a sibling, a son, and a boyfriend, all of whom have watched substance use disorder take away their loved ones. View this video series on YouTube.


Talking to Adolescents about Opioids

As part of IU's Responding to the Addictions Crisis Grand Challenge, Zachary Adams, an AGC principal investigator, and his colleagues in the IU School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry teamed up with experts at Overdose Lifeline and a video production team in the IUPUI School of Informatics and Computing to create a set of developmentally tailored educational materials designed to help young people learn about opioids and opioid use disorder. View this video series on YouTube.


ECHO

ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) connects local primary care teams with inter-disciplinary specialist teams to improve treatment for complex and chronic health conditions. ECHO uses technology to facilitate mentoring and knowledge sharing, enabling local primary care clinicians to provide best practice care for patients when they need it, close to home. The AGC supported the IUPUI ECHO Center and their work. ECHO clinics, freely available to all providers, include programs addressing hepatitis C, HIV, Opioid Use Disorder, and Integrated Pain Management, to list a few. Learn more about ECHO clinics and how you can participate.


Indiana Addictions Data Commons

Creating both a personalized and "big picture" snapshot of substance use disorder and its impact on our state requires a lot of data, which is often held by multiple organizations and data base sets. The Indiana Addictions Data Commons (IADC), developed and managed through Regenstrief Institute and part of Indiana University's Responding to the Addictions Crisis Grand Challenge, is working to address that issue by providing researchers and organizations access to both clinical and non-clinical datasets to support addictions-related work. Visit the The Indiana Addictions Data Commons website.


National and State Resources for SUD:

For more information about SUD and related topics, please visit the following national and state websites:


Supplemental Materials

When IU teamed up with the Indianapolis Coalition for Patient Safety to create this project, the goal was to provide resources to the community that would help groups, professional and families start a conversation around substance use disorder.

Below are supplemental materials aimed at helping those groups lead a discussion around the topics of addiction, treatment and recovery, harm reduction and prevention and building a community of hope. We also have included a takeaway for participants to leave with that highlights key points of the discussion. All of the materials can be easily downloaded and printed.

Additionally, there are two, online courses for both community members and nurses that are free and available online. The first course, "In This Together: Community Conversations to Reduce Stigma of Substance Use Disorder," can be found here. The second course, "Substance Use Disorders: An Introduction for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals," can be found here.

We also would love to hear your feedback. Below is both a printable version and online version of a quick survey that will help us better understand the needs of the community and ways to create useful tools.

Discussion guide (Accessible 07/20/22)   Takeaway (Accessible 07/20/22)

Survey (Accessible 07/20/22)

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