Cross-system response to the opioid epidemic.

This dissemination conference, co-sponsored by the CTN Ohio Valley Node, aimed to build partnerships across systems to improve access to evidence-based treatments to prevent overdose, deaths, and relapse to opioid use. Featuring community members and professionals from Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana impacted by the prescription drug epidemic, the conference featured a variety of presentations addressing the significant toll prescription drug misuse is having on communities in the region, the types of prevention and treatment programs already available, community-based strategies, and cross-systems perspectives. Available slides include:

Understanding the Impact of Opioid Use, Misuse & Abuse in the Region — Erin L. Winstanley, PhD and Mike Kroeger

Overdose Education and Naloxone Rescue in Massachusetts — Alexander Walley, MD, MSc

Project Lazarus: Community Perspective on Pain Management and Prescription Opioid Overdose Prevention — Fred Wells Brason II and Mike Lancaster

Law as Barrier to and Facilitator of Opioid Overdose Prevention — Corey Davis, JD, MSPH

Syringe Exchange in Cincinnati — Judith Feinberg, MD

Ohio “Project DAWN”: Deaths Avoided with Naloxone — Lisa Roberts, RN

Buprenorphine and Related Dynamics in a Clinical Setting — Dean Babcock, MSW, LCSW, LCAC

2012 Student Drug Use Survey Regional Data Release on Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs and Over-the-Counter Medications — Mary Haag, RN

Surviving Our Loss and Continuing Everyday (SOLACE) — Jo Anna Krohn