Resources

Informed Consent: Choose Your Own Treatment

Treatment can give you the opportunity to acquire the knowledge, skills, and abilities to stay on the path to recovery and live a healthy, productive life. Treatment can occur in a variety of inpatient and outpatient care settings, including specialty OUD/SUD programs, primary care offices, hospitals and residential programs, and includes a range of services including withdrawal management, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), abstinence-based recovery, recovery supports, and behavioral therapies, among others. This guide will allow you to make the best-informed decisions based on your personal treatment needs. View guide here.

Driver's License Reinstatement
Passed in March 2019, concerning Driver's License Reinstatement, this statute outlines the waving of license reinstatement fees in some circumstances and providing for a method to reduce the license revocation period.

Expungement
Passed in March 2019, this statute was amended to decrease the amount of time required to seek expungement, where applicable. A list of approved treatment and recovery facilities as indicated in code are available here. If you would like to have your program added to the approved treatment and recovery facility list, contact Jostin Holmes at Jostin.D.Holmes@wv.gov for more information.

Peer Recovery Support Specialist Requirements
To view Chapter 504 on Substance Use Disorders of the BMS Provider Manual concerning Peer Recovery Support Specialist requirements, please click here. Details about PRSS can be found on pages 23 through 25. For a copy of the Peer Recovery Support Specialist Certification Application Form, please click here. A fillable form is also available to download at this site.

Recovery Housing: Best Practices and Suggested Guidelines
Recovery housing is an intervention that is specifically designed to address the recovering person's need for a safe and healthy living environment while supplying the requisite recovery and peer supports. Click here to learn about the 10 best practices and minimum standards.

Standards and Credentialing Process for Addiction and Prevention Professionals
The West Virginia Certification Board for Addiction & Prevention Professionals is a voluntary board whose purpose is to certify the qualifications and competence of the persons who are engaged in professional addictions services, be it treatment or prevention.

West Virginia Overdose Fatality Analysis
In January 2018, DHHR released the 2016 West Virginia Overdose Fatality Analysis: Healthcare Systems Utilization, Risk Factors, and Opportunities for Intervention The effort was led by DHHR, the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Learn more.

Senate Bill 273 (Opioid Reduction Act)
Effective June 7, 2018, the legislation sets limitations on opioid prescriptions and authorizes a “non opioid directive" patients can put in their medical files, formally notifying health care professionals they do not want to be prescribed or administered opioid medications. Learn more.

EEO Utilization Report

For Providers

Executive Order No. 17-2: Statutory Regulations Suspended During the State of Emergency. Click here to view.
Office-Based Medication-Assisted Treatment Guidance May, 2021
Voluntary Nonopioid Directive Form

External Resources

Live Another Day - Live Another Day's mission is "equal access to life-saving resources". They also offer abundant resources for People of Color
Southeast Addiction Center - 2023's Top 50 resources for Black men who are struggling with substance use and/or their mental health
Resources for BIPOC Parents - Being a parent is hard. This guide has been written to support BIPOC parents
Resources for Black Women - Extensive mental health resources including a new guide that features over 50 fully-vetted resources for Black women
Recovery-Ready Workplace Toolkit.pdf