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2021 Overdose Prevention and Response Survey Report
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December 2022
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Description:Increasing fatal and non-fatal overdoses, particularly those related to opioids, dominated headlines related to public health as drug induced fatalities have totaled over 932,000 since 1999. Public focus on this tragedy has understandably lessened somewhat during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but deaths from the overdose epidemic have accelerated in the intervening two years. In November 2021, the National Center for Health Statistics reported that, over the 12-month period ending in April, over 100,000 people died after overdosing–an almost 30% increase over the previous year. This grim milestone underscores the urgency with which we must act– not least by better supporting those providing overdose prevention and response (OPR) services on the ground. Often, much of this day-to-day work is accomplished by local health departments (LHDs) that play an integral role in planning, coordinating, and implementing services in response to the epidemic.
NACCHO would like to thank the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for providing financial support for this work, under cooperative agreement CDC # 5 NU38OT000306-03-00. We also would like to thank the experts from local health departments who volunteered their time to participate in our survey. Finally, we would like to thank our colleagues on the NACCHO OIVP and Communications teams for their assistance in finalizing this report.
Overdose-Prevention-and-Response-Survey-vers-Dec-2022.pdf
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