Drug Overdose Prevention
The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, as a bona fide agent for the Kentucky Department for Public Health, collaborates with state, university, and community partners to implement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) prevention efforts.
Access to Recovery (ATR) is a linkage strategy supported by the U.S.
The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center, as a bona fide agent for the Kentucky Department for Public Health, collaborates with state, university, and community partners to implement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) surveillance strategies, which includes timely analysis of drug overdose emergency department encounters, fatal drug overdoses using multiple data sources, and an innovative public health surveillance strategy using remnant…
Opioid Data Lab: Understanding Overdose through Scientific Innovation focuses on developing a methodology for classifying drug poisoning deaths (i.e., drug overdose deaths) as single- versus polydrug poisoning deaths and developing analytical tools that can be used by surveillance epidemiologists and researchers.
The Rural Center of Excellence on Recovery Housing (RCOE-RH) focuses on increasing the quality and availability of, and access to, recovery housing in more than 100 rural counties within the service area of Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia.
Using traditional and novel statistical approaches to analyze these cohorts, STIMuLINK will examine risk/protective factors predictive of fatal stimulant overdose using the social ecological model as the principal framework.