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Healthcare providers can be a community’s gateway to many health services and can play a critical role in drug overdose prevention, reducing stigma, and helping to link patients to effective evidence-based treatment programs. Below are tools and resources for clinicians to give you information that can help you to provide the best care for your patients and help prevent drug overdose and related harms.

Naloxone

Naloxone is a life-saving medication that can reverse an overdose from opioids, including heroin, fentanyl, and prescription opioid medications.

80 percent of overdose deaths occurred inside a home
Naloxone Resources

Addiction Medicine

Addiction Medicine Resources
According to 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 40.3 million Americans had a substance use disorder in past year

Acute Pain

Unnecessary opioid prescribing increases patients' risk of harm
Acute Pain Resources

Safe Prescribing

Safe Prescribing Resources
249 million prescriptions for opioids were written by healthcare providers in 2013. Enough prescriptions for every American adult to have a bottle of pills.

Patient Materials

As many as 1 in 4 people receiving prescription opioids long term in a primary care setting struggles with addiction.
Patient Materials Resources
Increased use of naloxone can help end the opioid overdose epidemic.
How are you working across disciplines to coordinate care?