Newsroom

Press Releases and Advisories

• CDC launches campaign to help states fight prescription opioid epidemic
  September 2017
• Injury Center Press Room

Fact Sheet and Media Kit

• Rx Awareness Campaign Overview Fact Sheet pdf icon[PDF- 24 pages]
• CDC Rx Awareness Social Media Kit pdf icon[PDF – 11 pages]

Media Coverage

• Stevi Rae’s Rx Awareness Story (Extended Cut) | Covid-19external icon
  July 27, 2020
• CDC raises awareness on risks of prescription opioidsexternal icon
  April 9, 2019
• Eastern Niagara Healthlines: Join the Rx Awareness Campaignexternal icon
  September 8, 2018
• Advertising Campaign Next Step for Department’s Opioid Effortsexternal icon
  September 6, 2018
• Wyoming Department of Health to launch opioid awareness ad campaignexternal icon
  September 5, 2018
• Adapting the RxAwareness Campaign for New York State
  August 8, 2018
• How the CDC built an awareness campaign that spurred actionexternal icon
  July 2018
• Raising Awareness to Prevent Prescription Opioid Overdoses – CDC
  April 30, 2018
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is addressing the opioid epidemic through its “Rx Awareness Campaign.”external icon
  April 17, 2018
• Kansas joins efforts to battle opioid epidemicexternal icon
  January 15, 2018
• CDC tells opioid addiction stories with message: ‘It only takes a little to lose a lot.’external icon
  November 3, 2017
• The CDC Defends Its New Anti-Opioid Ad Campaignexternal icon
  October 24, 2017
• CDC Launches Opioid Campaign in Hard-Hit Statesexternal icon
  September 26, 2017
• CDC launches campaign to help states fight prescription opioid epidemicexternal icon
  September 25, 2017
• CDC to Launch Awareness Campaign Warning of Opioid Dangersexternal icon
  April 19, 2017
• CDC campaign against opioid abuse takes scared-straight approach to stanch epidemic of overdosesexternal icon
  April 19, 2017