Improving Partnerships Between Public Health and Public Safety to Reduce Overdose Deaths: An Inventory From the CDC Overdose Data to Action Funding Initiative.

ABSTRACT: Rates of drug overdose deaths are high and growing. Innovative strategies, such as partnerships between public health and public safety (PH/PS) agencies, are needed to curb these trends. Support for PH/PS partnerships as an overdose prevention strategy is growing; however, little information exists on the makeup of activities within this strategy. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) cooperative agreement supports innovative and comprehensive overdose surveillance and prevention activities across the United States. Within OD2A, funded states, counties/cities, and territories may implement PH/PS partnerships to reduce overdose deaths. An inventory of PH/PS activities described in OD2A recipients' year 2 annual progress reports was conduc

SUBMITTER: Mital S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9531979 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov-Dec 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature