Opioid Abuse & Treatment: Free Resources: Other Free Resources

Breathing

• Breathe2Relax: a mobile app that provides guided breathing instruction through video and audio tutorials

Meditation

• Headspace: a mobile app that guides users through meditation sessions, which has been shown to reduce depressive symptoms

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• MoodGYM: website for an online 5-week cognitive behavioral therapy program proven to decrease suicide ideation in medical interns

Suicide Prevention

• Virtual Hope Box: a mobile app for suicide prevention that helps users with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking
• Stay Alive: a suicide prevention app that provides customized safety plans, breathing and grounding exercise tutorials, and an online discussion forum

• American Academy of Family Physicians, Opioid Addiction
• DrugFacts: Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
• HHS.gov, About the Epidemic (US Department of Health and Human Services)
• MedlinePlus, Opioid Abuse and Addiction
• National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH
• Opioid Medications (US Food and Drug Administration)
• Opioids: The Prescription Drug & Heroin Overdose Epidemic (US Department of Health & Human Services)
• Overpowering NC's Opioid Epidemic, MorePowerful
• ​Pain Management CME from the MMS and NEJM Group, NEJM Knowledge
• Prescription Drug Abuse, Opioids (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
• SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), Opioids
• SAMHSA, Opioid Prescribing Courses for Health Care Providers
• The Opioid Epidemic: The Role of the Addiction Psychologist in This National Crisis, Purdue Global, Purdue University
• ​​​World Health Organization (WHO), Treatment of opioid dependence

• MedlinePlus Consumer Health Information:  Free consumer health information on hundreds of topics, in more than 20 languages, wth updates added daily.

• FreeBooks4Doctors  Free Electronic Books for Doctors, also optimizes for Smartphones
• FreeMedicalJournals Free Medical Journals, also optimizes for Smartphones

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