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Call For Abstracts
2025 ORS Conference

May 13-15, 2025

Portland, Oregon

The Overdose Response Strategy invites our ORS teams, public health and public safety partners to submit abstracts that highlight cross-sector collaborative efforts to reduce fatal and non-fatal overdoses. Submissions will be accepted until Friday, December 20, 2024, by 11:59 PM EST. For questions or support with the abstract submission form, please reach out to the ORS Training Team at orstraining@cdcfoundation.org.
Call for Abstracts Form
‘Silence on the Streets’ Documentary Production and Screening
The Connecticut ORS team, with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, initiated a project to address the educational gap in substance use awareness.
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A public health and public safety program

The Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) is an unprecedented and unique public health-public safety partnership between the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through their support of the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program and the CDC Foundation. At its core, the ORS is an example of a cross-agency, interdisciplinary collaboration with a single mission of reducing overdose deaths and saving lives across the United States.

WHO WE ARE

OUR HISTORY​

The ORS, a partnership between CDC and ONDCP, with support from HIDTA and the CDC Foundation, has grown tremendously since its inception. The program began in 2015 with only five originating HIDTAs, covering 15 states. Today, the program includes all 33 HIDTAs, covering 50 states, the District of Columbia (DC), Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

…the importance of public health and safety partnerships like the Overdose Response Strategy [is] to help us meet people where they are in order to save lives…

“President Biden called on the nation to come together and beat the overdose epidemic,” said Dr. Rahul Gupta, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. “His National Drug Control Strategy prioritizes actions that will expand access to effective prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery support services, as well as strengthen our efforts to stop the trafficking of illicit drugs. It also emphasizes the importance of public health and safety partnerships like the Overdose Response Strategy to help us meet people where they are in order to save lives. ONDCP is proud to partner with CDC’s Injury Center and work with the CDC Foundation on this initiative that brings public health and public safety agencies together to reduce fatal and non-fatal overdoses and supports evidence-based interventions.”

Dr. Rahul Gupta, Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

WHAT WE DO

annual report

The ORS Annual Report describes the current state of the overdose epidemic, outlines the program’s key strategies in 2023, and highlights major accomplishments, activities and success stories of our teams. Click on the icon below to view the report.

ORS Stories and News

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