In July 2025, swift coordination between law enforcement and public health partners enabled Baltimore City to respond rapidly to a suspected mass casualty overdose event. ...
The New York Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) team developed and piloted a Mock Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) Toolkit—a first-of-its-kind resource designed to help communities prepare ...
In a first for Georgia, the state’s Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) team helped launch a new initiative with the installation of a naloxone vending machine ...
Over Memorial Day weekend 2025, Connecticut public health and safety partners launched a rapid, coordinated response to a spike in overdoses in New Haven County. ...
Predictive modeling has emerged as one of West Virginia’s most effective strategies for improving overdose prevention. From January 2022 through December 2024, the West Virginia ...
After meeting the End Overdose CEO, Theo Krzywicki, at the 2024 Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) conference in Dallas, the Nevada ORS team recognized an opportunity ...
The U.S. Virgin Islands HIDTA Prevention Initiative, in collaboration with PR-USVI HIDTA, the Virgin Islands Police Department, the Virgin Islands Department of Health, the Overdose ...
In Arizona and Montana, the Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) is helping strengthen overdose prevention efforts in tribal communities through long-standing partnerships and community-led collaboration. Recent ...
The School Training Overdose Preparedness and Intelligence Taskforce (STOP-IT), sponsored by the Arizona Department of Education (ADE), is working to standardize opioid overdose prevention and ...
The South Dakota Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) team has made significant progress in expanding access to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) and improving ...
Clinton County, a rural community in New York State, facilitated the implementation of an Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) to strengthen its overdose prevention efforts. OFRs ...
ORS teams play an important role in fostering collaboration among partners. The California (Los Angeles/Riverside) Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) team exemplifies this role by actively ...
The North Florida Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) team partnered in June 2024 with Drug Free Duval, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) and the Community Coalition ...
The North Carolina Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) team, in collaboration with community leaders, worked to introduce naloxone into the Wake County School System—the largest in ...