General charity support
- Civil Society – Funding available to charities during the Covid-19 pandemic
- Frameworks Institute – Framing COVID-19
- Mental Health Foundation – Looking after your mental health while working during the Coronavirus outbreak
- NCVO – Your organisation and coronavirus
- NCVO – Are volunteers on lockdown?
Substance misuse treatment services
- Dr Emmert Roberts, Dr Michael Kelleher – A Protocol for the Management of Opioid Dependence in Temporary Homeless Hotels during the COVID-19 Outbreak and A Protocol for the Management of Alcohol Withdrawal in Temporary Homeless Hotels during the COVID-19 Outbreak
- European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction – EMCDDA update on the implications of COVID-19 for people who use drugs (PWUD) and drug service provide
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (USA) – COVID-19: Potential Implications for Individuals with Substance Use Disorders
- NHS England – Advice for health and justice healthcare teams on medicines and pharmacy services continuity
- Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee – Shared-Care service provision for people being treated for substance use during the COVID19 pandemic
- Scottish Drugs Forum – Guidance on Contingency Planning for People who use Drugs and COVID-19
- Cymorth Cymru – COVID-19 practice examples – Encouraging people to comply with social distancing and self-isolation
- American Society of Addiction Medicine – Range of Covid-19 guidance and resources
- Scottish Recovery Consortium – Recovery Community & Mutual Aid Groups COVID-19 Guidance
Harm reduction
- Harm Reduction Coalition (USA) – Safer Drug Use during the COVID-19 Outbreak and Syringe Services and Harm Reduction Provider Operations During the COVID-19 Outbreak
- Humankind – COVID-19 advice for people who use substances
- NHS South London and Maudsley – Harm reduction strategies for alcohol dependence
- Release – Harm Reduction & Drug Treatment “Essential journey” cards
- Release – Drug Treatment and Coronavirus/COVID19
- Scottish Drugs Forum – Do You Inject Drugs? Harm Reduction Leaflet
Families and relationships
- Adfam – COVID-19: Top Tips
- Alcohol and Families Alliance – COVID-19 – What AFA members are doing to support families and the sector
- Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists – Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection in Pregnancy
Health and Justice
- NHS England – Remote prescribing guidance for health and justice sites
- NHS England – Accessing medicines for detainees released during COVID-19
Deaths and bereavement
- Fulfilling Lives LSL – Managing death of a person we support in a residential setting during COVID-19
- Fulfilling Lives LSL – Supporting you during a period of bereavement during COVID-19
Free online support
Right Steps is an employee support service which has developed a free online module focused on information and wellbeing around COVID-19. Access Find Out More: Covid-19: Keeping well.
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