Resources

As the rate of opioid overdose deaths in the United States continues to rise, lawmakers and government leaders have used policies and laws to target what they see as a major contributorto the epidemic: lack of access to residential treatment for opioid users who wish to stop using.

With Care(giver) Navigator, PS@EDC’s Chelsey Goddard and Shai Fuxman are helping parents and other caregivers address the complexities of caring for a child with disabilities.

Learn about the work PS@EDC is doing to support the evaluation of New Bedford, Massachusetts’ TRAIN (Teach, Reach, and Initiate Naloxone) Project—designed to prepare first responders and key personnel to administer naloxone and provide post-overdose follow-up to affected individuals and their families.

Prevention Solutions@EDC’s new Prevention Fundamentals Online (PFO) training prepare practitioners new to the substance misuse prevention field and/or working in related disciplines to address substance misuse prevention within the broader context of behavioral health, and to do so through a lens of cultural competence and humility.

Prevention practitioners join forces with realtors and funeral directors in Blair County, Pennsylvania to prevent opioid misuse.

EDC’s online course Opioid Overdose Prevention: Understanding the Basics earns a platinum award in the 2018 eHealthcare Leadership Awards.

After nearly a decade, Scituate FACTS works with EDC's Prevention Solutions team to develop a survey for parents and caregivers.

PS@EDC’s Melanie Adler explores some of the challenges of parenting older teens during the COVID-19 epidemic, and strategies for staying safe and sane.

States and communities have begun developing systemic supports to address the related problems of problem gambling and substance misuse in a coordinated way. Prevention Solutions@EDC is collaborating with Iowa’s Department of Public Health to prepare for this important work.

Every day in the U.S, nearly 200 people die from opioid-related overdoses. Even more widespread than fatal overdoses are non-fatal overdoses. People who survive one overdose are twice as likely to die from a future one.