ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is providing $301 million in new funds to states and jurisdictions in the battle against addiction.
ATLANTA - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is providing $301 million in new funds to states and jurisdictions in the battle against addiction.
The funds, which will support the work of 47 states, Washington D.C, two territories, and 16 counties and citiesarepartoftheDepartment of Health and Human Services’ five-point strategy external icon to help combat the opioid overdose epidemic resulting from America’s drug crisis. Funded programs will yield information crucial to a better understanding of why, and among whom, overdoses and deaths are taking place.
That information will be used by the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services to enhance prevention and response efforts across the country. In addition, recipients of these new funds will work to strengthen prescription drug monitoring programs, improve state-local integration, establish links to care, and better support health care providers and health systems. For the first time in two decades, there is a drop in overdose deaths and more Americans are getting treatment for addiction.
CDC supports the prevention of drug and opioid specific overdose by:
• Using data to monitor emerging trends and direct prevention activities.
• Strengthening state and local capacity to respond to the epidemic.
• Working with providers, health systems, and payers to reduce unsafe exposure to opioids and treat addiction.
• Coordinating with public safety and community-based partners to rapidly identify overdose threats, reverse overdoses, link people to effective treatment, and reduce harms associated with illicit opioids.
• Increasing public awareness about the risks of opioids.