Opioid Epidemic Resources - Maryland State Library Resource Center

Opioid Epidemic Resources

What is the Opioid Epidemic?

About the Epidemic - Department of Health and Human Services
The Opioid Crisis - National Institute on Drug Abuse
Opioid Addiction - American Academy of Family Physicians
National Opioids Crisis - Department of Health and Human Services
Understanding the Opioid Epidemic - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
What is the Opioid crisis? - HarvardX - Harvard University Online Learning (video)

Don’t Die - Don’t Die is a campaign of the Baltimore City Health Department focused on reducing the stigma of addiction, promoting substance use disorder treatment, and educating the public to recognize and respond to an overdose with the opioid overdose reversal medication naloxone.
Opioid Overdose - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Combating the Opioid Crisis: Battles in the States - House Oversight and Investigations Committee
Video and text of witness testimony during hearing held on Wednesday July 12, 2017, including Maryland's Lt. Governor Boyd K. Rutherford.
Report of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis - White House Commission
Baltimore City Overdose Prevention and Response Information - Baltimore City Health Department

24 Hour Mental Health & Substance Use Information & Referral Line - Baltimore City
(410) 433-5175. Help is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If you or a loved one need mental health or addiction treatment, the trained professionals who staff this hotline can help you get it. (If you’re calling on someone’s behalf, they must be with you when you call.)
Behavioral Health System Baltimore provides services proven to reduce substance abuse and its related problems. They are a non-profit partner to the Baltimore City Health Department.
Baltimore Area Narcotics Anonymous - Free State (Maryland) Region Hotline 1-800-317-3222

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