People Impacted
This term refers to a person whose brain and behavior have been changed by repeated use of a substance or activity, making stopping difficult despite harmful consequences.
Who is an addicted person?
This program gives Indiana schools free naloxone kits, emergency boxes, and staff training to prepare them for possible opioid overdose emergencies.
What is the Indiana School Naloxone Project
This Indiana law expands access to naloxone so that more people, including families and bystanders, can carry and use it in an emergency to reverse an opioid overdose.
What is Aaron's Law
Policies like confidentiality laws require social workers to protect this essential client right, an ethical obligation found in the NASW Code of Ethics.
What is privacy
Social workers do this when they speak up to lawmakers to support prevention policies like naloxone access or syringe service programs.
What is lobbying
In addiction counseling, this group is frequently described as the primary support system—and sometimes the unintended enablers—of someone struggling with substance use.
Who is the family of the addicted person?
An early-intervention framework used in Indiana health care settings to screen for substance use, give breif counseling, and refer people to treatment.
What is SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment)
This Indiana law protects people who call for help and give naloxone during an overdose from being arrested or prosecuted for certain drug possession offenses, as long as they cooperate with responders.
What is Indiana’s Good Samaritan Law
Good Samaritan Laws support ethical practice by making it safer for social workers and community members to do this during an overdose without fear of legal consequences.
What is call for help or call 911
This type of prevention work involves educating communities about substance misuse, stigma, and available resources.
What is community outreach
This group is responsible for upholding public safety, investigating crimes, and enforcing the rules of local, state, and federal governments.
Who are law enforcement?
A nationally recognized school-delivered prevention curriculum used in Indiana to teach kids decision-making, resisting peer pressure, and self-management skills.
What is Botvin LifeSkills Training
This court-based program offers treatment, monitoring, and accountability instead of jail time for people charged with non-violent drug-related offenses.
What is the Indiana Drug Court Program
Mandated reporting laws influence ethical decision-making by requiring social workers to break confidentiality when this group is at risk.
Who are children or vulnerable adults
Social workers use this ethical value to justify advocating for prevention policies that reduce barriers to treatment and promote fairness.
What is Social Justice
You might meet them in a clinic, hospital, or emergency room—they’re the ones providing care when you’re sick or injured.
Who are the medical health professionals?
This Indiana-based coalition model uses a five-phase, data-driven process to build community prevention strategies and address local risk and protective factors
What is Communities That Care
This federal law strengthens the response to the opioid crisis by expanding evidence-based treatment, improving workforce training, supporting prevention, and promoting trauma-informed care.
What is the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act
When state laws protect clients from discrimination based on substance use history, they uphold this ethical principle that requires social workers to treat all clients fairly.
What is the value of dignity and worth of the person
When social workers gather data showing that prevention programs reduce harm and cost, they are using this skill to influence policy.
What is evidence-based advocacy
This group includes therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors who diagnose and treat emotional and behavioral conditions.
Who are the mental health professionals?
A Maternal & Child Health initiative in Indiana that includes LifeSkills training, parent-teen "cafes", and certified adolescent-friendly clinics.
What is Optimally Changing the Map
This statewide tool requires doctors and pharmacists to track controlled-substance prescriptions to help prevent overprescribing and “doctor shopping.”
What is the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
Policies that allow syringe service programs to operate legally support ethical social work practice by upholding this harm-reduction principle: reducing risks even when clients aren't ready for abstinence.
What is meeting clients where they are
By collaborating with medical providers, schools, and law enforcement, social workers use this strategy to strengthen prevention efforts across systems.
What is interdisciplinary collaboration