Opioids in the Workplace: Resources
Resources related to the Opioid Crisis
Tools for Workplaces
- CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control: Opioid Overdose
- Fentanyl
- Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder – NIOSH
- Opioids & Substance Use: Workplace Prevention & Response
- Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention
- Prescription Opioid and Benzodiazepine Medications and Occupational Safety and Health: Information for Employers and Healthcare Providers (2021-116) – New
- SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit (en Español)
- The Opioid Crisis and Connecticut’s Workforcepdf icon
- Using Naloxone to Reverse Opioid Overdose in the Workplace
- Workplace Supported Recovery — NIOSH
Research on Workplaces
- A NIOSH Role in Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention
- Drug overdose deaths at work, 2011-2016
- Fentanyls and the safety of first responders: Science and recommendations
- Impact of workplace injury on opioid dependence, abuse, illicit use and overdose: a 36-month retrospective study of insurance claims
- Landscape Study of Field Portable Devices for Presumptive Drug Testing
- MMWR Occupational Patterns in Unintentional and Undetermined Drug-Involved and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths
- National Safety Council Prescription Drug Employer Toolkit *Note: Signup may be required to download resource
- NIOSH Science Blog
- Opioid-related Overdose Deaths in Massachusetts by Industry and Occupation, 2011-2015
- Prevalence and expenses of outpatient opioid prescriptions, with associated sociodemographic, economic, and work characteristics
- Suicide and drug-related mortality following occupational injury
- The Opioid Overdose Epidemic and the Workplace
- What’s in the bag? Analysis of exterior drug packaging by TD-DART-MS to predict the contents
General Resources
- Can Ergonomics Programs Help Solve the Opioid Crisis? from AIHA The Synergist
- CDC Opioids Web Portal
- HHS.gov/Opioids
- Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid-Use Disorder- Mayo Clinic
- MMWR Opioid Reports
- National Drug Control Strategypdf icon
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- National Vital Statistics Report: Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths: United States, 2011–2016
- No Shortcuts to Safer Opioid Prescribing from New England Journal of Medicine
- Opioids.gov
- Prevention of Opioid Overdose from New England Journal of Medicine
- Report by IAIABC on State Strategies To Address the Opioid Epidemic *Note: Signup may be required to download
- The U.S. Surgeon General’s Spotlight on Opioidspdf icon
- Treatment Referral Routing Service National Helpline 1-800-662-HELP (4357)
- U.S. Surgeon General Addiction Resources
- U.S. Surgeon General Opioid Response
- World Drug Report 2019 from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimepdf icon
- Workplace Supported Recovery Video
Page last reviewed: August 15, 2018
Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health