GOAL

h DPH strengthens collaboration with health systems and other key partners to support reporting of nonfatal overdoses.

h DPH continues to strengthen relationships and data-sharing with other local public health agencies to provide a better regional picture of substance use.

h DPH incorporates an overdose field report into its overdose education and naloxone distribution training and encourages patrons to complete the report if naloxone is administered.

Partners

2023 County h DPH uses available data from stakeholder collaborations to adapt and improve its response to substance use and overdose. h DPH links existing nonfatal and mortality data sources and analyzes trends to better understand patterns that lead to fatal overdose. Opportunity

„ The DOTS project continues outreach to police, fire, and EMS departments, treatment centers, and community members for collaboration on overdose surveillance.

County h DPH identifies areas where additional data is needed on substance use and overdose and develops solutions to address critical gaps. Opportunity

® DPH Substance Use Program staff collaborate with Communicable Disease staff and other partners to better understand the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on SUD.

® DPH and partners collect race, ethnicity, and language-driven data and to better understand the impact of the substance use crisis in various demographics.

® As timeliness of data availability improves, DPH and partners implement platforms for tracking and mapping opioid overdoses in near real-time to identify geographical hot spots for focused interventions and alert public health and safety authorities of overdose spikes.