Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) : Opioid overdose prevention : using data to drive action

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.)
• Description:
  Drug overdoses have dramatically increased over the last two decades, and deaths from overdose have increased sharply since 2013. In 2016, more than 63,000 Americans died from drug overdoses. Of those overdose deaths, around 2 in 3 have involved a prescription or illicit opioid.
  
  Timely, high-quality data are critical to help public health ofcials efectively respond to the opioid overdose epidemic. Data help ofcials understand the extent of the problem, focus resources where they are needed most, and evaluate the success of prevention and response eforts.
  
  Learn about opioid overdose prevention: www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  CDC-NCIPC-ESOOSReport-508.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Analgesics, Opioid Drug Overdose/prevention & Control Harm Reduction Health Education Narcotic Antagonists Opioid-Related Disorders/prevention & Control Public Health Surveillance
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e5d57fa590aa02079cc5ecb540e94ce7ae6e0752f20c99d3aac6d65cfa3e5061
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/60944/cdc_60944_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 789.85 KB ]