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Posted 3/3/2022 (updated 3/26/2024)
Drug overdose is a nationwide epidemic that claimed the lives of over 100,000 people in the United States in the past year. Opioids, either alone or in combination with other drugs or alcohol, were responsible for approximately 70 percent of these deaths. Many of those 70,000 people would be alive today if they had been administered the opioid antagonist naloxone and, where needed, other emergency care.
Posted 2/7/2023 (updated 3/27/2024)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded an evaluation study of post-overdose outreach programs in Massachusetts known as the PRONTO Study. This study group assessed the evidence on post-overdose outreach.
Posted 8/11/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Sonoran Prevention Works is an advocate for people in Arizona affected by drug use. Spanish language resources from Ssamaritan PAWZ are included.
Posted 5/12/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Corrections-Based Responses to the Opioid Epidemic: Lessons from New York State’s Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Program focuses on the efforts of NYS to implement an overdose education and naloxone distribution program that teaches all soon-to-be released people in state correctional facilities—as well as their families and corrections staff—about the risks of opioid use, trains them in the use of naloxone, and offers it to them free of charge at release.
Posted 7/7/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
This Technical Briefing provides a description of Peer-to-Peer Distribution of Naloxone (P2PN). This is based on six case studies of pioneers of P2PN; three from the UK and three international examples that inform the guidance in this Technical Briefing. This document will inform and be extended following a pilot of P2PN in four sites in England in 2019. These will be supported by small grants from EuroNPUD. The learning from this pilot will help test the model and peer education approach promoted in this briefing.
Posted 8/19/2021 (updated 4/2/2024)
Have you ever felt too uncomfortable or weird (not in a nice way) after taking stims? You could have been “overamping.” Stimulants like crack/cocaine and meth can lead to side effects that are unwanted and uncomfortable or potentially dangerous. Knowing what it is and what to do can help you be prepared if it happens.
Overamping happens when the effects of a stimulant become overwhelming, distressing, and/or dangerous.Overamping is specific to “overdosing” on stims like crack, cocaine, or meth. Using the word “overamping” helps to differentiate from an opioid overdose since they are different in how it happens, how it appears, and how to respond.
Posted 3/2/2021 (updated 4/4/2024)
All materials and resources have been translated to Spanish.