Toolkit

This guide aims to uplift the voices of people who use drugs and educate others about the contexts of their lives, strategies employed for survival in the midst of a fatal overdose crisis, and suggestions for improvements to harm reduction and public health messaging with regards to never use drugs alone.

People who use drugs may use drugs alone from time to time. This resource was created by people who use drugs for people who use drugs to be safer when they use.

Our new toolkit provides vulnerable communities and the people who work with them with critical information on COVID-19 and guidance on preventive measures they can adopt, to protect people at higher risk from infection and transmission.

Vital Strategies and the National Council for Behavioral Health have developed a toolkit to help jails and prisons implement and expand access to medications for opioid use disorder, such as methadone and buprenorphine, for incarcerated people struggling with opioid dependence.