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Apr 5, 2024 · CDC is committed to fighting the opioid overdose epidemic and supporting states and communities as they continue work to identify outbreaks, collect data, respond to overdoses, and provide care to those in their communities.
Mar 27, 2024 · Providers and health systems are crucial in promoting safer opioid prescribing and more effective and equitable pain management among adults and youth as well as providing evidence-based treatment for substance use disorders, particularly among disproportionately affected populations.
As a part of the opioid response, CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control funded nine organizations, including the CDC Foundation to tackle this public health crisis. CDC is providing technical assistance and support to 48 states and the District of Columbia.
Overdose prevention is a CDC priority that impacts families and communities. Drug overdose is a leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Preventing drug overdose and reducing substance use-related harms is a CDC priority.
Nearly 75% of the 91,799 drug overdose deaths in 2020 involved an opioid. From 2019 to 2020, there were significant changes in opioid-involved death rates: • Opioid-involved death rates increased by 38%. • Prescription opioid-involved death rates increased by 17%. • Heroin-involved death rates decreased by 7%.
Dec 2, 2022 · The Overdose Prevention Strategy helps advance President Biden’s National Drug Control Strategy and his Unity Agenda to beat the overdose epidemic. “Now, one year after the release of this Strategy, our nation is in a much stronger position to treat addiction and save lives,” Secretary Becerra said.
The CDC Foundation’s Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) program is making an impact by addressing fatal and non-fatal overdoses community by community and often, block by block. Many of these overdoses are being triggered increasingly by synthetic opioids like fentanyl and the powerful animal sedative xylazine.
