This guide helps health care providers, systems, and communities support recovery from substance use disorders via employment mechanisms. It describes relevant research, examines emerging and best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers resources.
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![Advisory: Integrating Vocational Services into Substance Use Disorder Treatment](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/PEP20-02-01-019.jpg?itok=l2YhO5Rp)
This Advisory, based on TIP 38, Integrating Substance Abuse Treatment and Vocational Services, presents strategies and resources for SUD treatment counselors and clinic directors to improve outcomes for clients in recovery by helping them find and keep employment and deal with workplace stresses. This Advisory is directed to programs serving clients who are unemployed, underemployed, or struggling in workplace settings.
![Addressing the Specific Behavioral Health Needs of Men](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/sma14-4882.jpg?itok=fQCMk_Au)
This guide equips clinicians with practical guidance to address the needs of men in recovery. It addresses screening and assessment, treatment issues, working with specific populations of men, and male-appropriate treatment modalities and settings.
![TIP 56: Addressing the Specific Behavioral Health Needs of Men](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/sma14-4736.jpg?itok=FHGVrZcU)
This guide addresses specific treatment needs of adult men living with substance use disorders. It reviews gender-specific research and best practices, such as common patterns of substance use among men and specific treatment issues and strategies.
![TIP 48: Managing Depressive Symptoms in Substance Abuse Clients During Early Recovery](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/sma13-4353.jpg?itok=Cl5_5M4w)
This guide helps substance use counselors treat clients with symptoms of depression and substance use conditions. Program administrators will learn how to integrate depression treatment into early drug treatment. The guidelines cover screening, assessment, treatment, counseling, cultural competence, and continuing care.
![TIP 38: Integrating Substance Abuse Treatment and Vocational Services](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/sma12-4216.jpg?itok=tmEMlsvO)
This manual offers practice guidelines and recommendations for integrating employment services into substance use disorder treatment. It also provides information about funding, policy, and legal issues.
![TIP 54: Managing Chronic Pain in Adults With or in Recovery From Substance Use Disorders](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/sma13-4671.jpg?itok=tw7GVgyX)
This guide equips clinicians with information for treating chronic pain in adults living with a history of substance use. The guide discusses chronic pain management, including treatment with opioids. It also includes information about substance use assessments and referrals. Access the literature review.
![Shared Decision-Making in Mental Health Care](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/sma09-4371.jpg?itok=Au83QaWe)
This report gives an overview of shared decision-making (SDM), an intervention that enables people to actively manage their own health. It examines research on the effects of SDM in general and mental health care, and includes recommendations for advancing SDM in practice.
![Protracted Withdrawal](/sites/default/files/styles/product_thumbnail_dashboard/public/sma10-4554.jpg?itok=HRB-WXly)
This advisory defines protracted withdrawal and identifies specific withdrawal symptoms associated with alcohol, opioids, methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, and benzodiazepines. The advisory also explains how protracted withdrawal differs from acute withdrawal, and gives tips to help clients manage it in recovery.