Overdose

This technical assistance brief reviews areas of critical need in mental health services across the United States. It discusses the behavioral health workforce, youth mental wellness, the justice system, social determinants of health, suicide, and drug-related overdose fatalities. It highlights five core principles that guide strategies to combat these problems.

This 75-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 54th Annual Conference addresses the pharmacology, toxicology, diagnostic testing, and epidemiology of xylazine in exposures. The session includes didactic content, case-based narrative, review of literature, and panel discussion to review important topics about the emerging xylazine crisis in the US.

This tool highlights examples of successful People With Lived and Living Experience (PWLLE) engagement in data collection, interpretation and dissemination, gathered through key informant interviews — including overdose fatality review committees, drug checking, patient surveys and overdose reversal reporting — as well as novel approaches to community-based participatory research.

This resource presents information gleaned from an environmental scan and a series of key infomant interviews to identify ways in which health departments can meaningfully involve people with lived and/or living experience (PWLLE) in overdose surveillance and prevention.

The article discusses the new FDA approval for the first nalmefene hydrochloride auto-injector for emergent treatment of a suspected opioid overdose.

This webpage provides a list of tools and resources dedicated to overdose prevention.

This tool is for loved ones and allies to support Black and Hispanic/Latinx individuals who may be at risk for overdose. The self-assessment can be discussed with a loved one or ally and includes discussion points and resources to reduce overdose risk.

The resource provides a state-by-state review of available opioid settlement grantmaking programs and whether community organizations are eligible to apply. These funding opportunities allow community services to address the overdose crisis.

This dashboard presents data from the CDC's State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS), which collects data on unintentional and undetermined intent drug overdose deaths.

This web page highlights statistics on deaths involving drugs commonly associated with fatal overdose from 1999-2022 collected by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.