State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) [fact sheet] [2024]

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevetion (U.S.)
• Description:
  Drug Overdose Deaths Remain at Historically High Levels in the United States: Drug overdose deaths are a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. Timely and comprehensive surveillance and evidence-based prevention and response strategies remain essential for reducing overdose deaths.
  
  SUDORS Provides Comprehensive Information on Drug Overdose Deaths: In 2016, the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) began as part of CDC’s Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) program, to provide comprehensive data on opioid overdose deaths. In 2019, SUDORS expanded to collect data on all drug overdose deaths in 47 states and the District of Columbia as part of CDC’s Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program. In 2023, SUDORS expanded again to include 49 states and the District of Columbia as part of CDC’s OD2A in States program. Each of these 50 funded jurisdictions collects and abstracts data on unintentional and undetermined intent drug overdose deaths from 3 required sources: 1) death certificates (DC); 2) coroner/medical examiner (CME) reports (including scene evidence, witness reports, and autopsy reports); and 3) postmortem toxicology (Tox) reports for entry into a web-based CDC platform that is shared with the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS).
  
  The overall goal of SUDORS is to inform overdose prevention and response efforts by: 1. providing a better understanding of the circumstances that surround overdose deaths; 2. identifying specific substances causing or contributing to overdose deaths, as well as emerging and polysubstance overdose trends; and, 3. improving fatal overdose data timeliness and accuracy.
  
  SUDORS Incorporates Multiple Data Sources: Data abstracted from death certificates, coroner/medical examiner reports, and postmortem toxicology reports yield more than 600 data
  
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• Content Notes:
  Publication date taken from document properties.
• Subjects:
  Analgesics, Opioid Analgesics, Opioid / Poisoning Cocaine Drug Overdose / Epidemiology Drug Overdose / Mortality Fentanyl Methamphetamine Opiate Overdose Opioid Epidemic Public Health Surveillance
• Keywords:
  Opioid Overdose Epidemic: United States
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevetion (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Unted States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC)
• Topic:
  Injury, Violence, & Safety
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Resources
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3c80b4436956d45e8e87a9f8553b222fa891f798b31b69a289a08f5514a640c3045e6fadc74d6df3446e2fc6743c6c8a6d15611a6bcc84ce94f3ef2770996c63
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/256897/cdc_256897_DS1.pdf
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