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An Assessment of Overdose Surveillance at a Local Public Health Department
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Mirroring public health response to infectious disease outbreaks, many public health departments are taking an outbreak management approach to respond to drug overdose surges 1-3. The Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) has developed an… read more -
An Assessment of the EMS Drug Overdose to Death Pathway from 2011 to 2017
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Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, with an estimated 60,000 deaths in 2016. Nationally, EMS overdose responses with naloxone administration have nearly doubled from 2012 to 2016 from 573.6 to 1004.4… read more