Drug Policy Alliance
Join the Drug Policy Alliance in their efforts to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.
The development of effective policies at the local, state and federal level are just one to tool to assist opioid treatment providers in planning for emergencies. Effective policies should cover a wide variety of areas including public health, emergency management, mutual aid, behavioral health, access, coverage and should be developed with stakeholders and experts in each of these areas.
At its core, opioid preparedness policies should aim to improve communities’ infrastructure for prevention and mitigation, through the use of cross-sector data to assist all service providers and policy makers in further decision making.
Join the Drug Policy Alliance in their efforts to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug use and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.
NCHRC is dedicated to the implementation of harm reduction interventions, public health strategies, drug policy transformation, and justice reform in North Carolina and throughout the American South.
These resources can help individuals, families, and communities prepare, respond and recover.
This dataset focuses on state laws that provide civil or criminal immunity to licensed healthcare providers or lay responders for opioid antagonist administration.
A variety of promising legal and regulatory strategies are available to states to address prescription drug misuse, abuse, and overdose.
Download the state-by-state data of total Medicaid spending on Buprenorphine, Naltrexone and Naloxone Prescriptions for Opioid Use Disorder.
Abstract and access to the journal article on disaster preparedness.
The effort involved 14 months of quarterly stakeholder workgroup meetings, a multisector tabletop exercise, clarified roles, and formalized agreement on how to dispense medication during disasters. Read more...
Contact information for treatment authorities in each state.
AATOD's mission is to enhance the quality of patient care in treatment programs by promoting the growth and development of comprehensive opioid treatment services throughout the United States.
The Policy Surveillance Program, housed at Temple’s Beasley School of Law, developed a clearinghouse of state syringe distribution laws. This page identifies national trends and ways in which individual states allow access to sterile syringes.