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Stimulant and methamphetamine use disorders are complex brain diseases that affect an individual’s well-being and can also affect their entire family. Learn more about effective strategies and treatment. Recovery is possible.

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Considerations For Families in the Child Welfare System Affected by Stimulant Use

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Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network Stimulant Workgroup, Nat..., 2022

This training examines effects of stimulant use on parents and their children. Participants will be able to assess how stimulant use may affect

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Policy and Practice Resources

Strategies to Support Parents with Methamphetamine Use Disorder and Their Families

National Center on Substance Abuse and Chil..., 2022

Child welfare staff identify methamphetamine use as a continuing or reemerging

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Supporting Children Affected by Parental Methamphetamine Use

National Center on Substance Abuse and Child..., 2021

Parental methamphetamine use increases the risk of child abuse and neglect. This tip

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Treatment of Stimulant Disorders

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ..., 2020

This guide supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to treat

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Children Affected by Methamphetamine Program: Implementation Progress and Performance Measurement Report

National Center on Substance Abuse and Child..., 2016

SAMHSA funded the Children Affected by Methamphetamine grant program to improve the

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ATTC Network’s National Stimulant Core Curriculum

Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC)...

This training, part of a core curriculum training package, provides information about

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Matrix Manuals

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...

These comprehensive resources provide SUD professionals with tools to implement the

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Methamphetamine Abuse in Women of Reproductive Age

American College of Obstetricians and Gynec...

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists originally published this

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Tips for Teens: The Truth About Stimulants

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This fact sheet describes short- and long-term stimulant effects, lists signs of use

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Related Online Training, Videos, and Webinars

How Using Contingency Management Can Support Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders

Date: September 29, 2022

Features 1) an overview of contingency management including the implementation with different cultural populations, 2) the

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Considerations For Families in the Child Welfare System Affected by Stimulant Use

Addiction Technology Transfer Center Networ..., 2022

This training examines effects of stimulant use on parents and their children

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Contingency Management in Health Care Settings

Northwest Addiction Technology Transfer Cent...

This series serves as a bridge to intensive technical assistance for health care

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Additional Resources

Meth360 Information Kit

The Partnership at Drugfree.org

This kit provides six fact sheets about methamphetamine that discuss effects of use

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Methamphetamine

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Provides information on methamphetamine and includes a brief overview, street and

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National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children (National DEC)

National DEC provides training and technical assistance to professionals to better

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Find Help with a Personal Situation

Substance Use and Mental Health Treatment Locator

To find treatment facilities confidentially, 24/7, please call 1-800-662-4357 (HELP).

To locate general treatment services, visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Treatment Locator online or call 1-800-662-4357 (HELP). This service provides referrals to local treatment facilities, support groups, and community-based organizations. It is a free, confidential, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a year information service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and family members needing treatment for a mental and/or substance use disorder.

To locate general treatment services, visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Treatment Locator online or call 1-800-662-4357 (HELP). This service provides referrals to local treatment facilities, support groups, and community-based organizations. It is a free, confidential, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a year information service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and family members needing treatment for a mental and/or substance use disorder.

National Child Abuse Hotline

If you suspect a child has been harmed by abuse or neglect, please call 1-800-422-4453.

If you suspect that a child has been harmed or is at risk of being harmed by abuse or neglect, call the National Child Abuse Hotline at Call the National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-422-4453. Serving the United States and Canada, the hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with professional crisis counselors who—through interpreters—provide assistance in over 170 languages. All calls, texts, and chats are confidential. If you believe a child is in immediate danger of harm, call 911 first.

If you suspect that a child has been harmed or is at risk of being harmed by abuse or neglect, call the National Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-422-4453. Serving the United States and Canada, the hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with professional crisis counselors who—through interpreters—provide assistance in over 170 languages. All calls, texts, and chats are confidential. If you believe a child is in immediate danger of harm, call 911 first.

National Suicide Prevention Line

For free and confidential support for people in distress, 24/7, please call or text 988, chat 988Lifeline.org, or call 1-800-273-8255.

If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide or experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis, help is available and there are options to receive compassionate care. You can call or text 988 or chat 988Lifeline.org. You can also call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255). Both are confidential and available 24/7 to everyone in the United States and will connect you to a trained counselor at a suicide crisis center nearest you.

If you or someone you know are in crisis, thinking about harming yourself, attempting suicide, or harming another person, tell someone who can help right away. There are options to help you cope. Call the toll-free, 24-hour hotline of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255) to be connected to a trained counselor at a suicide crisis center nearest you. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is confidential support, available 24/7 to everyone in the United States.

Contact Us

The National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare offers free technical assistance to a variety of systems on making policy and practice changes to improve outcomes for families affected by substance use disorders and involvement with child welfare services. To learn more about technical assistance services or if you have a question please email NCSACW at ncsacw@cffutures.org or call toll-free at 1–866–493–2758.

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