Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network Coordinating Office - ATTC NCO

08/15/2025

👶🏽💊 Knowledge saves lives—especially during the peripartum period.
This Addiction Science Made Easy brief shows how customized education on opioid overdose and MOUD significantly boosts understanding among pregnant and postpartum individuals.
📚 Science made simple. Impact made real.
👉 Read more: https://attcnetwork.org/asme_articles/personally-tailored-opioid-overdose-and-moud-education-significantly-increases-knowledge-in-peripartum-individuals/

08/14/2025

SAMHSA’s Awareness Month Toolkit is now available
🆕 Access ready-to-use social media copy and graphics, resources, and actionable steps to help you make a difference in your community ➡️ samhsa.gov/about/digital-toolkits/suicide-prevention-month

08/13/2025

🔷 Meet the Contingency Management & Stimulants POWER Team 🔷
The Contingency Management & Stimulants POWER Team is driving innovation in evidence-based strategies to address stimulant use disorders. As part of the ATTC Network’s POWER initiative, this team is focused on expanding access to contingency management—one of the most effective treatments for stimulant use—and supporting its integration into diverse care settings.

This multidisciplinary team is working to reduce stigma, promote clinical adoption, and ensure equitable access to care for individuals impacted by stimulant use.

📽️ Watch the team share their motivations and vision for transforming stimulant use treatment.

08/11/2025

The ATTC Network recognizes August 31 as International Overdose Awareness Day. Overdose does not discriminate, and families across America need your support. Learn more via International Overdose Awareness Day https://www.overdoseday.com/

08/06/2025

Stay Informed with the ATTC Messenger! 📬 Subscribe to the ATTC Messenger, a monthly e-publication, for the latest tips, best practices, and news in the addiction treatment and recovery field. Stay ahead with features like Addiction Science Made Easy and updates on national professional development events. Subscribe now! https://attcnetwork.org/subscribe-messenger/

08/04/2025

Upcoming Professional Development Opportunity
Join PCSS MAUD this Thursday, August 7, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. CT for a timely and important case-based discussion:
"Healthcare Professionals with Alcohol Use Disorder"

This session will explore the unique challenges faced by healthcare workers living with alcohol use disorder and offer evidence-based strategies for support and recovery.

📢 Featured Speakers:
Dr. Serena Wadhwa, Psy.D., LCPC, CADC, RYT, CCTP
Emma Roberts, Moderator
📝 NAADAC CE credit available.
🔗 Register here: https://umsystem.zoom.us/meeting/register/0Lb3-ykGQnicWeCdi4PfFg #/registration

08/03/2025

🚨 New Training Alert! 🚨
Behavioral health professionals—are you ready to strengthen your skills in to***co use treatment?

The National Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Recovery's Recover to Tobacco-Free initiative has launched a free online training series designed to integrate to***co use treatment into behavioral health care. Learn how to build individualized, stage-appropriate treatment plans and support recovery more holistically.

📚 Start learning today: https://ow.ly/Wfiz50Woy5t

08/01/2025

📈 Encouraging trend from this week's release by SAMHSA of its annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Recovery is possible. In 2024, over 27 million people reported being in recovery from a substance use or mental health issue. Let’s continue to support and celebrate recovery. Read more about the new report here: https://ow.ly/e4R950WwP16

Four years of multimode data available for reporting trends

07/30/2025

🔷 Syndemic Solutions POWER Team 🔷

The Syndemic Solutions POWER Team is tackling the complex intersections of substance use disorders (SUDs), HIV, HCV, and STIs. This POWER team is advancing integrated approaches that address these overlapping epidemics with compassion, science, and community engagement.

Their work centers on building systems that recognize the interconnected nature of these health challenges and promote holistic, person-centered care.

📽️ Hear from the team about their commitment to syndemic-informed solutions and why this work matters.

07/28/2025

📈 Substance Use Disorders among older adults have tripled since 2000. Is the workforce ready?
New in : Why tailored treatment for older adults with & is urgently needed—and what’s standing in the way.
🔗 Read more from our Addiction Science Made Easy series: https://attcnetwork.org/asme_articles/treatment-for-substance-use-disorders-in-older-adults/

07/25/2025

🔷 Spotlight on the ATTC Network’s Recovery Support POWER Team 🔷
As part of the ATTC Network’s national Partnering to Optimize Workforce Education and Resources (POWER) initiative, the Recovery Support POWER Team is advancing the field of behavioral health by strengthening the recovery support workforce and expanding access to services across the lifespan.
📽️ In this brief video, members of the Recovery Support POWER Team share their personal motivations for joining the initiative and their vision for the future of recovery support.
👉 Watch the video to learn more about the people and purpose driving this important work.