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Overdose Prevention

About this resource:

HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: October 2020

Workgroups: Medical Product Safety Workgroup, Substance Use Workgroup

This website provides information on preventing opioid overdose deaths. Specifically, it offers information and resources intended to help:

Improve opioid prescribing
Prevent and treat opioid use disorder
Reverse overdoses

It also explains how to recognize an overdose.

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Objectives related to this resource (9)

Reduce fatal injuries — IVP‑01

Getting worse

Reduce unintentional injury deaths — IVP‑03

Getting worse

Reduce emergency department visits for nonfatal unintentional injuries — IVP‑04

Little or no detectable change

Reduce overdose deaths involving natural and semisynthetic opioids — IVP‑21

Improving

Reduce overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone — IVP‑22

Getting worse

Reduce overdose deaths involving heroin — IVP‑23

Target met or exceeded

Reduce overdose deaths involving opioids — IVP‑20

Getting worse

Reduce emergency department visits related to nonmedical use of prescription opioids — MPS‑02

Target met or exceeded

Reduce overdose deaths involving methadone — IVP‑24

Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

1.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. (n.d.). Overdose prevention. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/prevention/index.html