Arizona Action Plans, General Legislation and Key Reports

This collection includes the state’s Opioid Action Plan, reports from task forces and meetings, information about the Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act, Arizona’s applications for the State Opioid Response Grant and Opioid State Targeted Response Grant, and links to key websites.

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Arizona Department of Health Services – Opioid Epidemic

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

This website is the homepage for the Arizona Department of Health Services’s Opioid Epidemic initiatives. It includes real time reporting of statewide opioid data and links to Department initiatives and resources. Many of the materials produced by these efforts are included in the

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Opioid Epidemic – Opioid Interactive Dashboard

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

This is the website for the Arizona enhanced opioid surveillance data project. It provides real time data on a variety of opioid topics including overdose, use of naloxone, neonatal withdrawal syndrome (or neonatal abstinence syndrome), and reports based on age, gender, and geographic location.

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Arizona Opioid Response Summary

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

This 2019 report provides a comprehensive review of the state of Arizona’s opioid response efforts through December 2018. In addition to briefly describing major initiatives in the state, the report provides data from the state’s comprehensive enhanced data surveillance system.

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Arizona Opioid Planning Summit: A Look at the Data & ADHS Actions

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

This April 2019 presentation from the Arizona Opioid Planning Summit presents data from Arizona’s opioid surveillance project, describes the policy initiatives adopted in the state over the previous 3 years, and serves as a comprehensive overview of Arizona Department of Health Services opioid efforts.

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Opioid Planning Summit – Notes from Participant Discussion Sessions

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services, AHCCCS, Governor's Office of Youth, Faith, and Family

The Arizona Department of Health and the Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith, and Family convened a one day summit meeting of key stakeholders to discuss next steps in addressing the opioid crisis in the state. This document summarizes the findings from the breakout sessions, describing

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Opioid Planning Summit – Summary of Participants Top Challenges and Recommendations

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services, AHCCCS, Governor's Office of Youth, Faith, and Family 

The Arizona Department of Health and the Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith, and Family convened a one day summit meeting of key stakeholders to discuss next steps in addressing the opioid crisis in the state. This document summarizes top challenges identified during the meeting and the

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Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act – 2018

Source: Arizona Governor's Office of Youth, Faith, and Family

This report provides a plain language summary of the 2018 Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act. It includes an overview of Arizona’s opioid initiatives to date and then identifies existing problems and explains how the new law will address the problems. The document also includes frequently asked questions and answers.

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Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act (Spanish)

This report provides a Spanish language summary of the 2018 Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act. It includes an overview of Arizona’s opioid initiatives to date and then identifies existing problems and explains how the new law will address the problems. The document also includes frequently asked questions and answers.

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The Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act – Protecting Individuals with Chronic Pain (Spanish)

Source: Arizona Governor's Office of Youth, Faith, and Family

In 2018, the Arizona Legislature passed the Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act. This one page information sheet for patients in Spanish explains how the legislation protects chronic pain patients who use opioids to treat their pain. The document clarifies that the act does not limit prescription fills

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The Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act: Protecting Individuals with Chronic Pain

Source: Arizona Governor's Office

In 2018 the Arizona Legislature passed the Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act. This one page information sheet for patients explains how the legislation protects chronic pain patients who use opioids to treat their pain. The document clarifies that the act does not limit prescription fills for chronic

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Addressing a Public Health Emergency: Taking Action on Arizona’s Opioid Crisis – Presentation from the 15th Annual Indian Health Service Integrated Behavioral Health Conference

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

These slides from a 2018 presentation by the Arizona Department of Health Services provide an overview of the many opioid related initiatives launched in the state. Includes an analysis of the data collected through Arizona’s enhanced opioid data surveillance.

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Opioid Action Plan: Opioid Overdose Epidemic Response Report

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

The Department of Health Services in Arizona worked with stakeholders to develop this 2017 action plan to address the opioid crisis. The report reviews efforts already underway in the state, describes the state of the crisis through data, provides recommendations for further actions, and

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Opioid Epidemic Recommendations

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

The Department of Health Services in Arizona worked with stakeholders to develop a 2017 action plan to address the opioid crisis. This one page document summarizes the recommendations in the action plan.

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Arizona Substance Abuse Task Force Recommendations

Source: State of Arizona - Governor's Office of Youth, Faith and Family

The Arizona Substance Abuse Task Force produced this 2016 report recommending policy changes to address the opioid crisis. Topics covered included identifying evidence based treatments, improving access to substance use disorder treatment, focusing on prevention and early

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Arizona State Opioid Response Grant

Source: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

This is the grant application and project plan for Arizona’s State Opioid Response funding. The proposal’s goals for the funding include increasing access to medication assisted treatment, improving recovery support services, and implementing or expanding prevention programs to prevent

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Arizona Opioid State Targeted Response Grant

Source: Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System

This is the grant application and project plan for Arizona’s Opioid State Targeted Response funding. The proposal’s goals for the funding include increasing access opioid use disorder treatment, enhancing coordination and integration of care, improving recovery support services, and

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Arizona Treatment Capacity Survey Analysis for the Quarter Ending December 31, 2018

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services 

The state of Arizona requires substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers to report quarterly on the number of days they were full and unable to accept referrals for treatment. The Arizona Department of Health Services surveyed SUD treatment facilities and found a low response

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Arizona Treatment Capacity Survey Analysis for the Quarter Ending March 2019

Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

The state of Arizona requires substance use disorder (SUD) treatment providers to report quarterly on the number of days they were full and unable to accept referrals for treatment. Response rate to the survey was low, but indicated there may be a decrease in the number of people

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