overdose

Evidence-Based Strategies for Preventing Opioid Overdose

7 March 2022

Washington DC

United States

Join the Addiction Policy Forum on March 7th from 1-2:30 p.m. (ET) for a webinar and Q&A to discuss key strategies to preventing opioid overdose with experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Overdose Prevention in Community Corrections: An Environmental Scan

Book

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conducted an environmental scan to determine how overdose prevention and response efforts are currently implemented in community...

Intentional Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States

Scientific article

2 February 2022

During 1999–2019, age-adjusted rates of U.S. drug-involved overdose deaths more than tripled from 6.1 to 21.6 per 100,000 ( 1), and suicide rates (driven primarily by firearm suicide) increased 35.2% from 10.5 to 13.9 per 100,000 ( 2)...

Opioid-related deaths: health and social responses

Website

This miniguide is one of a larger set, which together comprises Health and social responses to drug problems: a European guide 2021. It provides an overview of the most important aspects to consider when planning or delivering health and...

Take-Home Naloxone and the Prevention of Deaths from Heroin Overdose

Scientific article

Naloxone is a drug that can reverse the effects of opioid drugs like heroin, methadone, opium, codeine, morphine and buprenorphine, and is an important aid in preventing drug-related deaths. Overdose deaths are often witnessed and can be...

Prevention and care of substance overdoses

ISSUP Webinar

5 October 2021

ISSUP Kazakhstan invites you to take part in the upcoming webinar on the topic: 'Prevention and care of overdoses of psychoactive substances'. The widespread use of drugs, as well as the use of the Internet to distribute them, is becoming a...

Prevention and care of substance overdoses

5 October 2021

Nur-Sultan

Kazakhstan

ISSUP Kazakhstan invites you to take part in the upcoming webinar on the topic: 'Prevention and care of overdoses of psychoactive substances'.

Time: 10.00 a.m. London/3 p.m. Nur-Sultan

Register for the webinar

Drug overdose: a film about life

Video and audio recordings

19 October 2020

This is a film about hope and life, it is about people who are making a difference.

President Biden issues proclamation for overdose awareness week

News

President Biden issued the first ever Presidential Proclamation recognizing August 29, 2021 – September 4, 2021 as Overdose Awareness Week – a time to honor the lives lost to the overdose epidemic and recommit to both preventing overdoses...

Overdose recognition and management: Reading list

Reading List

According to the World Health Organisation, around half a million deaths each year are attributable to drug use. More than 70% of these deaths are related to opioids, with more than 30% of those deaths caused by overdose. Signs, symptoms...