Douglas county health department - overdose data to action: limiting overdose through collaborative actions (OD2A - local) - [CDC-RFA-CE-23-003] - douglas county, nebraska has seen an 84% increase…

Douglas county health department - overdose data to action: limiting overdose through collaborative actions (OD2A - local) - [CDC-RFA-CE-23-003] - douglas county, nebraska has seen an 84% increase in overdose deaths from 2018 to 2020. According to the most recent state and local data, douglas county residents accounted for 52% of overdose deaths in nebraska in 2020. Currently, limited population characteristics are collected for fatal and nonfatal overdoses in douglas county. There is a need to strengthen the local community's overdose surveillance and prevention programs with a focus on addressing health disparities. By improving drug overdose mortality and morbidity surveillance, providing naloxone training, and exploring other strategies to reduce subsequent overdoses we hope to reduce the risk of overdose and other health harms associated with drug use. We plan to solicit the perspectives of people with lived experience and seek to also build trust and rapport with people who use drugs (pwud) and connect them with the care and support they need. Dchd has proposed multiple activities under four prevention strategies, one surveillance strategy and laboratory testing to address mortality and morbidity due to overdoses in our community. Our activities will be driven by community data and feedback so they are unique to our county. Through this funding, we will be able to provide more local data and resources to our community, educate a variety of individuals on those resources and ultimately reduce fatal and non fatal overdoses in our community.