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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TN-ROCS Enhancement and Evaluation Project

Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance - U.S. Department of Justice

The linked grant award announcement provides additional information Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program’s (COSSAP) grant for the Tennessee Recovery Oriented Compliance Strategy (TN ROCS) initiative.

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Tennessee Recovery Oriented Compliance Strategy (TN ROCS)

Source: Legislative Analysis and Public Policy Association

The Tennessee Recovery Oriented Compliance Strategy (TN ROCS) program provides individualized treatment plans, supervision, and judicial oversight to individuals with a demonstrated need for mental health or substance use disorder treatment but do not qualify for inclusion in a drug court program.

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Reunifying Families with Substance Use Disorder

Source: National CASA/GAL Association

This 8 page overview details strategies promoting the reunification of families when a parent has a substance use disorder. This report explains why prioritizing family unification is important and lists 10 action steps government agencies and community organizations can take to support strong, healthy families.

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Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative

Source: Strength Over Stigma (SOS) Recovery Community Organization

New Hampshire’s Strength Over Stigma (SOS) Recovery Community Organization is one of the non-profit entities in New Hampshire given state grant funding to help businesses create recovery friendly workplace programs.

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Syringe Distribution Programs Can Improve Public Health During the Opioid Overdose Crisis

Source: Pew Charitable Trusts

This issue brief explores syringe services programs (SSPs) and how they can improve public health. The paper describes the benefits of SSPs such as reduced rates of HIV and hepatitis C infections among people who use drugs, increases in SSP participants engagement in substance use disorder treatment, and the lack of relationship between SSP programs and increased criminal activity.

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New Mexico Statewide Standing Order for Registered Pharmacist Naloxone

Source: New Mexico Department of Health

The New Mexico statewide standing order authorizes registered pharmacists in the state to dispense naloxone to any person who uses an opioid, regardless of how the opioid is used or obtained, or to any person in a position to assist a person at risk of experiencing an opioid overdose.

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Federal Grantees May Now Use Funds to Purchase Fentanyl Test Strips

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that federal funding may be used to purchase rapid fentanyl test strips (FTS). FTS can be used to determine if drugs have been cut or mixed with fentanyl which greatly increases the risk of overdose death.

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