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.
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.
Responding to Individuals in Behavioral Health Crisis Via Co-Responder Models: The Role of Cities, Counties, Law Enforcement and Providers
Source: Policy Research Inc. and National League of Cities
This resource describes the core elements of co-responder models that pair law enforcement with behavioral health providers to address individuals in crisis and the benefits of these models compared to law enforcement only response models.
Executive Order – Safe Policing for Safe Communities: Addressing Mental Health, Homelessness, and Addiction Report
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
This resource describes successful models states and localities have put into use to address mental health, substance use, homelessness and children’s services in order to reduce law enforcement involvement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.