Overdose

This Quick Take outlines the legal and policy efforts that have led to an increase in availability and stresses the importance of continued advocacy efforts to further expand MOUD availability in jails and prisons and in the community.

This guide offers strategies to integrate people with living and lived experience (PWLLE) into overdose prevention programs, featuring examples like overdose spike response and overdose fatality reviews. 

This NIDA web page includes facts and figures on prescription opioids.

This guide exists to help communities decrease opioid overdose deaths; it includes tools and real-world examples that can be used to build and strengthen community coalitions that work to reduce opioid overdose deaths.

This fact sheet includes a basic description of the overdose reversal medication, naloxone. It addresses who should carry it, how to recognize and overdose, and what to do if an overdose is suspected.

This fact sheet includes a basic description of fentanyl, a brief explanation of the danger, and strategies to helped loved ones who may be using or at risk of using fentanyl.

This toolkit, designed to augment overdose prevention and reversal training, provides guidance on the role of opioid overdose reversal medications, including naloxone and nalmefene, and how to respond to an overdose.

This guide focuses on using medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in jails and prisons and during the reentry process when justice-involved persons return to the community. 

This report provides an update on the present state of coverage, availability of, and access to, medications for treating ongoing alcohol use disorder and opioid use disorder, and reversing an opioid overdose within state Medicaid plans.

This web page is a resource center for social media, video, print, radio, FAQs, messaging, and other marketing materials that can be used to promote the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. It is designed for states, territories, tribes, crisis centers, communities, emergency service providers, and other partners to speak with one voice.