ODMAP provides near real-time suspected overdose data across jurisdictions to support public safety and public health efforts to mobilize an immediate response to a sudden increase, or spike, in overdose events. ODMAP links first responders and relevant record management systems to a mapping tool to track overdoses to stimulate real-time response and strategic analysis across jurisdictions.
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Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP)
The British Columbia Drug Overdose and Alert Partnership: Interpreting and sharing timely illicit drug information to reduce harms
We describe the British Columbia Drug Overdose and Alert Partnership, an innovative collaborative model of stakeholders who work in prevention, harm reduction, treatment and enforcement related to psychoactive substance use. We describe the formation, purpose, stakeholders, and operation of the partnership and resultant public health surveillance system.
CSTE – Overdose Surveillance Capacity Building
Since 2018, CSTE has partnered with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) to provide additional support for jurisdictions operating programs for drug overdose surveillance by conducting the Drug Overdose Epidemiological Surveillance Capacity Assessment. Through this partnership, CSTE created standard guidance, workshops, online learning courses, and resources to increase capacity to conduct drug overdose surveillance. See featured resources and free training opportunities on this page.
FAST Overdose Alert Platform Resource Guide
This Resource Guide has been created to outline the design of the FAST Overdose Alert Platform for other health units, organizations and networks to use in their own communities. Because it was designed to track local overdose patterns and trends in real-time, community organizations and health agencies can better respond to community needs. This document will detail the technical specifications required to establish this system in your community.
Co-designing drug alerts for health and community workers for an emerging early warning system
Alerts should be ‘shareable’ across a range of clinical and community settings and audiences. To maximise engagement and impact, alerts must command attention, be easily recognisable, be available on multiple platforms (electronic and printable formats) in varying levels of detail, and be disseminated via appropriate notification mechanisms to meet the needs of diverse stakeholder groups.
NACCHO – Overdose Spike Response Framework for Communities and Local Health Departments
The purpose of this resource is to help local health departments (LHDs) plan for, respond to, and evaluate public health responses to overdose spikes.
Public Health Drug Checking in North Carolina – video
1.5 min video about a groundbreaking collaboration between people who use drugs and public health scientists. Filmed at the NC Survivors Union in Greensboro, and the UNC campus in Chapel Hill, come see how analytic chemistry can prevent overdose deaths.
Narcotica Podcast – Episode 87: Drug Testing Equals Empowerment with Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta and Charlton Roverson
Narcotica co-hosts Aaron Ferguson and Troy Farah spoke with Charlton Roverson, the Eastern Regional Coordinator with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition in Fayetteville and Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, a pharmaco-epidemiologist and scientist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who helps run the UNC Street Drug Analysis Lab.
AMERSA Podcast Series – Harm Reduction: Compassionate Care for People who use Drugs
Episode 1: Test your drugs, not your limits – the role of advanced drug checking in harm reduction
