Substance Use


Conference Materials

2017 • Annual Membership Meeting

2017 Award Recipients

CCSME presented awards in four categories. Please see the attached document for full descriptions. Visionary Leadership Award Mary Susan Haynes, Ph.D. The Hon. Nancy Mills...

2-1-1 Maine

Dial 2-1-1 or 1-877-463-6207 to be connected to a complete list of support groups in Maine, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They...

AC-OK for Co-Occurring Disorders — Adolescent Screening Tool


AC-OK for Co-Occurring Disorders — Screening Tool


AC-OK Screen for Co-Occurring Disorders — FAQs


Conference Materials

2011 • Complexities of Trauma

Addiction and Trauma

From the A3 breakout session led by John O’Brien, PhD.

Addiction Resource

Addiction Resource is an educational website whose goal is to provide a wealth of information to help better educate people about substance use, and motivate...

Addressing Co-Occurring Disorders in Non-Traditional Service Settings | SAMHSA

A white paper that discusses the treatment of co-occurring disorders in settings outside substance abuse and mental health systems. Describes how primary health care, law...

Addressing Tobacco Among Individuals with a Mental Illness or Addiction

This paper summarizes literature and discusses how treatment for tobacco can no longer be ignored in mental-health and addiction-treatment settings.

Adolescents with Co-Occurring Disorders: Improving Self-Care and Reducing Harm

From the Adolescent Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Training Initiative, 2000—2001.

Advancing the Dialogue: Medication and Mental Illness

In his book, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker investigates the astonishing rise in the number of people enrolled in government disability due to mental...

Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly

A weekly newsletter featuring in-depth information and analysis on fundamental issues, policy changes, new legislation, research findings, and business news for managers and directors in...

Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health Services, Maine (AAMHS)

The mission of AAMHS (also known as the Alliance) is to represent its membership while advancing mental health and substance use disorder prevention, treatment and...

Assessment of Adolescents With Complex Issues: Substance Abuse and Mental Illness

From the Adolescent Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Training Initiative, 2000—2001.

Bangor Area Recovery Network (BARN)

BARN is a recovery center completely run by volunteers, which offers addiction recovery support to local individuals while also standing with them as community allies...

Behavioral Health and Justice Involved Populations | SAMHSA

A presentation that discusses the impact of behavioral health on the American population as well as the criminal justice system. Examines the changes that are...

Center for Applied Sciences (CENAPS)

Get quality information about addiction, recovery, and relapse prevention. Easy to understand and use. Make great handouts. Get info for school papers.

Conference Materials

2011 • Complexities of Trauma

Children, Trauma, and the Impact of Substance Abuse

From the C2 breakout session led by Don Burke, MS Ed, and Amy Stevenson, MS Ed.

Co-Occurring Disorders | SAMHSA

SAMHSA’s page on co-occurring disorders.

Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Trainer’s Manual

The trainer’s manual is a basic curriculum on co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. The course covers twelve core competency content areas, each divided...

Conference Materials

2016 • Beyond the Basics in Suicide Prevention

Coming Out and Substance Abuse

For over four decades, and in spite of reports of elevated risk of suicidal behavior for LGBT individuals, little attention has been given to this...

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2017 • Annual Membership Meeting

Conference to discuss possible connection between opiate addiction, mental health

A brief article and video about the conference from WCSH-6. [ult_blockquote]AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — People working in both the mental health and substance abuse...

Conference Materials

2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment

Creating a Realistic Checklist — Revised with Input from Workshop Participants

This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...

Conference Materials

2012 • Making it Work: Implementing Seeking Safety

Creating Trauma-Informed Correctional Care: A Balance of Goals and Environment

From the European Journal of Psychotraumatology 2012.

David Mee-Lee’s Tips and Topics

David Mee-Lee, MD is a leading expert in co-occurring substance use and mental disorders. His monthly blog, “Tips and Topics,” explores subjects and solutions drawn...

Conference Materials

2017 • Annual Membership Meeting

Discrimination and the Opioid Crisis

Nick Szubiak — Integrated Health Consultant, National Council for Behavioral Health — has over 15 years of experience in direct service, administration and clinical supervision....

Conference Materials

2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment

Drug Interactions with Tobacco Smoke

This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...

Conference Materials

2017 • Annual Membership Meeting

Drug treatment need urgent but seems ‘overwhelming,’ federal official says

An article about and photos of the conference in the Kennebec Journal, March 1, 2017 Kimberly Johnson, the director of the federal Center for Substance...

Conference Materials

2015 • DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care

DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care | Part I

DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care — a full-day workshop in four sections, presented by David V. Mays, MD, PhD, on...

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2015 • DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care

DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care | Part II-a

DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care — a full-day workshop in four sections, presented by David V. Mays, MD, PhD, on...

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2015 • DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care

DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care | Part II-b

DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care — a full-day workshop in four sections, presented by David V. Mays, MD, PhD, on...

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2015 • DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care

DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care | Part III

DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care — a full-day workshop in four sections, presented by David V. Mays, MD, PhD, on...

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2015 • DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care

DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care | Part IV

DSM-X: A Look into the Future of Behavioral Health Care — a full-day workshop in four sections, presented by David V. Mays, MD, PhD, on...

Dual Diagnosis Relapse Prevention Monograph: A Report on the Training Initiative 1997–1998

This monograph represents further progress in the effort toward integration of treatment approaches for clients with dual disorders in the State of Maine. It is...

Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare

ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can we save our badly broken...

Conference Materials

2012 • Making it Work: Implementing Seeking Safety

Evaluation Project on Young African-American Men

From “Seeking Safety therapy for men: Clinical and research experiences” in Men and Addictions, 2009.

Faces & Voices of Recovery

Faces & Voices of Recovery is dedicated to organizing and mobilizing the over 23 million Americans in recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs,...

Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health

The first-ever Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health reviews what we know about substance misuse and how you can use that knowledge to...

Fostering Resiliency in Children and Youth: Four Basic Steps for Families, Educators, and Other Caring Adults

From the Adolescent Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Training Initiative, 2000—2001.

Frequently Asked Questions about Opioid Overdose

This pamphlet includes information on how to identify and what to do in the event of an opioid overdose.

Frequently Asked Questions about Opioid Use Disorder and IMAT

This pamphlet includes information about Opioid Use Disorder and Integrated Medication-Assisted Treatment.

Frequently Asked Questions about Prescription Opioids

This pamphlet includes information on the names of prescription opioids, side effects, risks, and safe use.

General Principles for the Use of Pharmacological Agents to Treat Individuals with Co-Occurring Mental and Substance Use Disorders | SAMHSA

Offers general principles to assist in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of pharmacologic approaches to support the recovery of individuals with co-occurring disorders. Covers engagement,...

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation | Addiction-Informed Mental Health Services

Rehab and recovery services at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation address co-occurring mental health issues.

How to Safely Store and Get Rid of Medicines

This pamphlet contains information on storage and disposal of medications.

Conference Materials

2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment

ICD-10 Codes for Tobacco/Nicotine Dependence and Secondhand Smoke Exposure

This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...

Identifying and Helping Patients with Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders: A Guide for Primary Care Providers | SAMHSA

A fact sheet to aid primary care providers in identifying and helping patients with the co-occurring disorders (CODs) of substance abuse and mental disorders. Discusses...

Innovative Solutions for Building Recovery with Alternatives to Psychotropic Medication

A DVD of two keynote presentations in Freeport, Maine.

Integrated Care Models | SAMHSA-HRSA

Evidence, examples, and models supporting primary and behavioral healthcare integration.

Maine Al-Anon Family Groups

Visit the website for a list of meetings. Al-Anon is a fellowship of those who are affected by another’s drinking who come together to share...

Maine Alcoholics Anonymous

207-774-4335 or 1-800-737-6237 | 24 hours | Visit the website for a list of meetings. Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a fellowship of men and women...

Maine Alliance for Addiction Recovery (MAAR)

MAAR is a statewide recovery community organization that organizes people in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction and recovery allies into a unified recovery presence...

Maine Kids: The Way Life Should Be

Knowledge Dissemination Conference: Adolescent Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders | Monograph of Conference Proceedings May 9–10, 2000

Maine Narcotics Anonymous

1-800-974-0062 This website serves the Maine Area of Narcotics Anonymous (MASCNA) and the Eastern Maine Area of Narcotics Anonymous (EMASCNA). They offer a helpline, a...

Maine Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHS)

SAMHS is the single state administrative authority responsible for the planning, development, implementation, regulation, and evaluation of substance abuse and mental health services.

Maine Quality Counts

Maine Quality Counts is a regional healthcare collaborative where the people who get, provide and pay for health care come together to improve health care...

Conference Materials

2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment

MaineCare Tobacco Treatment Billing

This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...

MaineHealth Opioid Use Disorder | Medication-Assisted Treatment

MaineHealth shares your concerns about how the opioid epidemic is affecting our communities. Our providers work to treat pain safely and effectively, while lowering the...

MaineHealth Opioid Use Treatment & Resources

As a clinician, you strive to provide the best evidence-based, patient-centered care to your patients. MaineHealth wants to provide you with up-to-date information about current...

Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) | SAMHSA

SAMHSA’s page on medication-assisted treatment.

Mental Health America (MHA)

MHA is a community-based nonprofit dedicated to addressing the needs of those living with mental illness and to promoting the overall mental health of all...

Conference Materials

2017 • Annual Membership Meeting

More must be done to provide drug abuse treatment, get addicts into it, federal official says

An article about and photos of the conference in the Portland Press Herald, March 1, 2017 Kimberly Johnson, the director of the federal Center for...

National Council Shareables and Infographics

The National Council produces lots of original content that is designed to be re-used by everyone to further education and awareness. Here is their resource...

Conference Materials

2017 • Annual Membership Meeting

National expert wants more attention on prescription drugs to fight addiction

A brief article and video about the conference from WCSH-6 [ult_blockquote]AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Despite the record number of drug overdose deaths in Maine,...

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH)....

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

NIDA’s mission is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and...

National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)

The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides national and state-level data on the use of tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs (including non-medical use...

Conference Materials

2017 • Annual Membership Meeting

National Trends in Substance Use, Misuse and Disorders

Dr. Kimberly Johnson — Director of Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) — opened the meeting with...

Organizational Measures Of Integrated Services

Background In 2005, preliminary studies were conducted to develop standardized measures of organizational capacity to address psychiatric disorders in addiction treatment programs. The process of...

Portland Recovery Community Center (PRCC)

The PRCC is a safe haven for people in addiction recovery and offers a home for meetings and activities devoted to addiction recovery. It is...

Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness | SAMHSA

SAMHSA’s page on prevention.

Putting Recovery into Practice

This video of Ken Thompson, MD, “Putting Recovery Into Practice,” was filmed at the Acadia Hospital, Multidisciplinary Psychiatric Grand Rounds, on January 13, 2012.

Recovery Month | SAMHSA

Every September, SAMHSA sponsors Recovery Month to increase awareness and understanding of mental and substance use disorders and celebrate the people who recover.

Recovery Perspectives: A Conversation Between People in Recovery and Service Providers

In this compelling presentation, people with lived experience of recovery from co-occurring disorders discuss among themselves, and then with service providers, the issues of most...

Recovery to Practice (RTP) | SAMHSA

Recovery to Practice (RTP) helps behavioral health and general healthcare practitioners improve delivery of recovery-oriented services, supports, and treatment.

Relapse Prevention Therapy Workbook

This Relapse Prevention Therapy Workbook from www.relapse.org is designed for people in recovery from alcohol or other drug addiction who have a history of relapse,...

SBIRT failure: ‘S’ works, ‘BI’ only for low-risk only, and ‘RT’ unknown

From Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly DOI: 10.1002/adaw

Seeking Safety

Seeking Safety is an evidence-based, present-focused counseling model to help people attain safety from trauma and/or substance abuse. It can be conducted in group (any...

Conference Materials

2012 • Making it Work: Implementing Seeking Safety

Seeking Safety: An Implementation Guide

Excerpt from Substance Abuse Treatment for Youth and Adults: Clinician’s Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, David W. Springer and Allen Rubin, editors.

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2012 • Making it Work: Implementing Seeking Safety

Seeking Safety: An Intervention for Trauma-Exposed Incarcerated Women?

From Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 13:88–101, 2012.

Selected Papers of William L. White

A collection of articles and monographs authored by William White on the new recovery advocacy movement, recovery management, and recovery-oriented systems of care, intended as...

StartYourRecovery.org

StartYourRecovery.org is a free, confidential resource developed with the input of leading clinicians, experts from the White House and SAMHSA, and people in recovery themselves....

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health...

Substance Abuse Facilities Data/N-SSATS | SAMHSA

The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) is an annual census of all substance abuse treatment facilities in the United States, both public and...

Substance Abuse in College

Recognizing, Understanding and Combatting Alcohol & Drug Abuse on Campus

Conference Materials

2017 • Summit on Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorder

Embracing Substance Use Treatment and Recovery in Primary Care – A Community Approach

September 13, 2017 | Summit on Opioid and Other Substance Use Disorder: Embracing Substance Use Treatment and Recovery in Primary Care – A Community Approach...

Support Groups | Maine Medical Center

Maine Medical Center hosts a variety of support groups each month.

Support Group Listings | The Times Record

The Times Record publishes support group listings from throughout the midcoast region of Maine.

Conference Materials

2011 • Complexities of Trauma

The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: Trauma as a Public Health Crisis and Implications for Human Services

This video is of a keynote address by Ann Jennings, PhD, at the 3rd Annual Co-Occurring Disorders Institute: Complexities of Trauma. The video was filmed...

The Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce

A nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the recruitment, retention, training, and performance of the prevention and treatment workforce in the mental health and addictions sectors...

Conference Materials

2017 • Annual Membership Meeting

The Federal Response to the Opioid Crisis

Dr. Kimberly Johnson — Director of Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) — discussed a number of...

TIP 42: Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With Co-Occurring Disorders | SAMHSA

Provides substance abuse treatment providers with updated information on co-occurring substance use and mental disorders and advances in treatment for people with co-occurring disorders. Discusses...

TIP 55: Behavioral Health Services for People Who Are Homeless | SAMHSA

Equips those who provide services to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and who need or are in substance abuse or mental...

Conference Materials

2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment

Tobacco Treatment Medication Dosing Chart

This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...

Conference Materials

2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment

Tobacco Treatment Plan

This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...

Conference Materials

2016 • Integrating Tobacco Treatment

Tobacco Use Assessment

This program featured various local experts who are addressing tobacco policy, treatment of co-occurring conditions, best practice assessments and treatment plans. Participants also learned from...

Trauma-Informed Practices in Drug Treatment Courts: Essential Approaches that Promote Safety and Success with Justice-Involved Men and Women

A webinar presentation from September 29, 2015.

Treating Your Pain Without Opioids

This pamphlet contains information about treatment alternatives to prescription opioids.

Treatment of Adolescents with Co-Occurring Disorders: The Application of Best Practice Models

From the Adolescent Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Training Initiative, 2000—2001.

Voices of Reform: Courtney A.

Courtney lost custody of her two sons because of her substance use disorder. But instead of sitting in a jail cell, she received treatment and...

Wellness & Recovery Resources | SAMHS

A list of social clubs, club houses, peer support centers, and self-help groups throughout the state of Maine, provided by the Maine Office of Substance...

Youth MOVE Maine (YMM)

Youth MOVE Maine is a statewide, regionally based youth and young adult-driven organization dedicated to ensuring that all young people have a say in the...