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.
Vine Grove Police Chief Kenneth Mattingly got the idea for the vending machine after a call officers responded to earlier this year
Some jails have also increased the availability of Narcan to reverse opioid overdoses
Opioid settlement funding will continue for 11 to 18 years, and it is expected that more settlements will be forthcoming. Is your agency getting its share?
An ICMA 2018 session on opioid interventions shared rural, urban and regional diversion program information and offered key takeaways about the role of data.
Data from states like Vermont confirms that MAT for opioid abuse disorder increased under Medicaid expansion.
The cloud-based PDMP platform integrates with electronic health records, and uses machine learning to create single records to track opioid prescriptions.
Find out how Johnson County is using cloud-based data to address recidivism and increase access to public health services.
‘Women with PTSD’ has been called a silent epidemic. If left untreated, it can lead to mental and physical illnesses and opioid abuse. Learn about treatments and community intervention opportunities.
One tech startup is looking for five cities to test how wastewater can reveal opioid abuse data on a neighborhood level.
The Stepping Up Initiative puts law enforcement in contact with local resources that can assist in the education and rehabilitation of inmates with mental health illnesses, including substance abuse, to help pave the way to lower recidivism rates.
Doctors are prescribing gabapentin more often because of its non-addictive properties, but law enforcement and drug rehabilitation programs are finding signs of abuse that exacerbate opioid abuse.
Philadelphia is talking to potential operators of a safe injection site for IV drug users as a way to reduce opioid overdose deaths, but there are many legal and social questions.
Carfentanil has become a key topic for health officials and law enforcement who work to combat this synthetic opioid’s responsibility for addiction and death that continues to rise.
Data on VA opioid prescriptions will be updated twice per year.
To fight the opioid epidemic, the HHS opioid code-a-thon produced opioid apps that present first responders, law enforcement and physicians with new hope.
P.A.A.R.I. received grant funding to place 25 AmeriCorps drug recovery coaches at Massachusetts police departments.
The Police Executive Research Forum has issued a report recommending the most effective opioid crisis actions law enforcement agencies can take.
Public health, public safety and other officials from several Wisconsin counties formed a healthcare coalition to fight the community opioid crisis.
A peer support coach, and recovering addict, has connected more than 10 patients at Mount Carmel West Hospital with detox, long-term treatment and other services.
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