Partnerships with Coroners for Improvements in Postmortem Toxicology Testing and Mortality Data in Idaho and Louisiana

Sharing timely overdose data and information is crucial to understand and develop strategies to reduce overdoses nationwide. In the following stories, the Louisiana ORS team and the Idaho ORS team proactively initiated collaborations with key public health and public safety partners to share overdose knowledge and establish response strategies.   In Louisiana prior to 2023, […]

Low Barrier Post Overdose Initiative

Through initial outreach efforts to learn more about overdose response in Lafayette Parish, the Louisiana Overdose Response Strategy (ORS) Public Health Analyst (PHA) met with the Major of Enforcement at the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office to learn about the number of overdose calls and the number of naloxone doses provided when responding to an overdose […]