Post-Overdose Response Team (PORT) Toolkit

A post-overdose response team (PORT) is an overdose follow-up program that allows agencies to visit a person who has recently overdosed (e.g. within 24-72 hours). The North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition (NCHRC) explains that “a follow-up visit conducted within days of a naloxone reversal provides multiple opportunities such as an:

• Opportunity to direct people to harm reduction services for active drug users and treatment services for drug users looking to reduce or stop their substance use;
• Opportunity to provide naloxone, overdose prevention training and overdose prevention materials; and
• Opportunity for stakeholders in the opioid response to work together to reduce overdose mortality.”