Opioid Epidemic Resource Guide
The Opioid Epidemic Resource Guide is an essential resource that local and state government agencies are working to combat through prevention, treatment, and enforcement strategies. The epidemic has devastating effects on communities, requiring a coordinated response to reduce overdose deaths, support recovery, and hold accountable those responsible for illegal distribution. We’ve included tools like an interactive map of drug overdose deaths and a fentanyl overdose primer for medics. There are grant leads, news, and insights into topics like the public bathrooms crisis and strategies to increase treatment, intervention, and education.
There have been signs of discord between state and local governments across the country about how any settlements would be divided among them. Ohio officials are hoping to avoid this with a preemptive agreement.
Lawyers for plaintiffs say people should file claims even if they’re not sure Purdue’s drugs were involved in their injuries.
“They were coming to the hospital, no prenatal care, no medication-assisted treatment, so the babies were worse. (But now) the moms are getting treated. We’re trying to relationship build, get them on their right two feet,” said nursing manager Lisa Shafer.
A University of Maryland criminologist reports that shortages of precursor chemicals, not reduced demand, likely drove the nationwide decline in fentanyl overdoses
The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed that SAMHSA funding will be restored following backlash from grantees and lawmakers
The machine, located in the Middlesex Jail and House of Correction visitor center, offers free overdose-reversal kits to staff, visitors and family members
Athens Fire and Rescue will equip additional trucks with AEDs using opioid settlement funds while the police department begins placing them in patrol vehicles
Hamilton County pairs paramedics with peer recovery specialists to respond on scene, connect people to treatment, funded by opioid settlement dollars
Bitterroot Health will use funds from the Opioid Abatement Trust to provide tuition assistance for EMTs pursuing paramedic school
Maine’s MD3 program deploys doctors alongside EMS crews to overdose and emergency calls, expanding field treatment, education and follow-up care across Kennebec County
A new initiative embeds social workers with first responders during 911 calls for mental health and substance use crises in Cuyahoga County
The Broward County project, which cost a total of about $80,000, was funded by a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant and took about a year to roll out
The stands are accessible 24/7 and are designed to reduce stigma around obtaining and using Narcan
The funds will support full-time addiction counselors and withdrawal medications, marking the first portion of $60 million in opioid settlement money allocated to Ohio jails
The grants allow the state “to invest in programs that improve reentry outcomes and reduce the likelihood that a person will reoffend in the future”
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