SDTMA What Lies Ahead: Key Trends in Overdose Prevention in 2024

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January Digest
As we step into the new year with hope and determination, we invite you to a thought-provoking webinar to chart the course for the year to come. Join us on Tuesday January 23rd from 11:30am -12:30pm PT for What Lies Ahead: Key Trends in Overdose Prevention in 2024. This webinar will include highlights from the recent National Overdose Prevention Leadership Summit<https://healthleadership.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c8b1ab9f5dec8c02ab1a882b&id=ef5c33669c&e=2340602ad1> and explore the most pressing issues and trends at the forefront of prevention, harm reduction, legislation, and treatment. This web forum will not only unveil the emerging trends, but also provide a closer look at the surge of Xylazine and Stimulants. See below to register.

With the momentum surrounding opioid settlements, we encourage you to view a new resource from the Legislative Analysis and Public Policy Association, Legislative Roadmap for Reducing Overdose Deaths and Increasing Access to Treatment. This comprehensive overview details 10 evidence-based policy approaches to implement in your community using opioid settlement funds. See below for more details.

Let's make 2024 a year of progress, collaboration, and positive change. Together, we can shape a future where overdose prevention is not just a goal, but a reality.

Onward,

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Carmen Rita Nevarez, MD, MPH
Co-Director, PHI Center for Health Leadership & Impact
Sr. Vice President Emeritus, External Relations and Preventive Medicine, Public Health Institute
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Karya Lustig, MA, ISS
Co-Director, PHI Center for Health Leadership & Impact
Director, Program Office CDC Cooperative Agreement,
Public Health Institute

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What Lies Ahead: Key Trends in Overdose Prevention in 2024
Tuesday, January 23 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PT, 2:30 - 3:30 PM ET

The most recent National Overdose Prevention Leadership Summit focused on ideas and trends in overdose prevention. In this web forum we will cover some of the highlights from the summit and discuss what's to come in the year ahead. Join us for an insightful conversation where we'll explore the top five forward-looking trends in the fields of prevention, harm reduction, legislation, and treatment, including the surge of xylazine and stimulants. This event promises a glimpse into groundbreaking concepts and cutting-edge advancements that are set to shape the landscape in 2024.

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) 20th Annual Prevention Day
Monday, January 29th I 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM PT | 11:30 AM – 8:00 PM ET
Join SAMHSA and the Community-based Advocacy-focused Data-driven Coalition Building Association (CADCA) for their 20th Prevention Day on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. This free event will include conversations about the current state and future innovations in prevention of substance use and misuse.

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Harm Reduction Services for People Who Use Drugs: Exploring Data Collection, Evidence Gaps, and Research Needs - A Workshop
January 30 - 31 I 7:00 AM – 2:00 PM PT | 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET
Recognizing the public health emergency posed by opioid overdoses, there increasingly have been calls for a comprehensive approach to drug policy that includes a focuses on reducing harm for people who use drugs (PWUD). This virtual public workshop will explore data collection efforts, evidence gaps, and research needs on harm reduction services for PWUD. The workshop will examine harm reduction services that aim to: prevent overdose and infectious disease transmission; enhance the health, safety, and wellbeing of PWUD; and offer low-threshold options for accessing substance use disorder treatment.

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Featured Resources

2023 State of the States: Legislative Roadmap for Reducing Overdose Deaths and Increasing Access to Treatment:This 2023 State of the States overview<https://healthleadership.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c8b1ab9f5dec8c02ab1a882b&id=c612a41eb8&e=2340602ad1> from Legislative Analysis and Public Policy Association (LAPPA) lays out 10 evidence-based policy approaches that state leaders and other stakeholders can pursue to reduce overdoses and increase access to effective substance use treatment.All of these strategies would be considered “approved uses” for opioid settlement funds according to the National Settlement Exhibit E guidance<https://healthleadership.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c8b1ab9f5dec8c02ab1a882b&id=069cb520ee&e=2340602ad1>, but many states have laws and policies in place that restrict or would hinder these efforts. Some opioid settlement authorities are explicitly tasked with making policy recommendations to improve effective allocation of these funds, and we encourage advocates to use the momentum around opioid settlements to bring attention to flawed policies and how state leaders can remove or alter them. Learn more.<https://healthleadership.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c8b1ab9f5dec8c02ab1a882b&id=9125038f17&e=2340602ad1>

Pathways to Recovery – Highlighting Tribal Recovery Efforts: The focus of this Summit was to showcase pathways to recovery and highlights multiple ways to support American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Tribes on the frontlines of the opioid/fentanyl crisis. Nearly 300 participants attended the Summit either virtually or in person, including Tribal leaders, federal agency staff and leaders, service providers, and practitioners. Learn more.<https://healthleadership.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c8b1ab9f5dec8c02ab1a882b&id=2006d013b5&e=2340602ad1>

Exploring Value-Based Payment for Substance Use Disorder Services in the United States:
This new guide from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) explores the growing use of value-based payment (VBP) for substance use treatment and recovery services. Contributors include the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Dr. Joe Parks, Aaron Williams and Emily Diehl. Learn more.<https://healthleadership.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c8b1ab9f5dec8c02ab1a882b&id=7d00a78534&e=2340602ad1>

Funding Opportunities

HEAL Initiative: Novel Targets for Opioid Use Disorders and Opioid Overdose (Department of Health and Human Services; National Institute for Health). Due: February 1, 2024. Learn more and apply.<https://healthleadership.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c8b1ab9f5dec8c02ab1a882b&id=2bf848d5d9&e=2340602ad1>

Adolescent Overdose Prevention and SUD Treatment Initiative (Department of Health and Human Services; National Institute for Health). Due: March 13, 2024. Learn more and apply<https://healthleadership.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c8b1ab9f5dec8c02ab1a882b&id=37290af182&e=2340602ad1>.

Overdose in the News

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 Helping the 48 Million Americans Living With Addiction:
Of the more than 48 million Americans living with substance use disorder (SUD), only 5% are getting any kind of help. In this opinion piece, the New York Times’ Jeneen Interlandi shares seven ways to address this issue: humanizing people who use drugs, using the evidence, expanding the workforce, fixing funding, liberating methadone, helping the incarcerated and stopping infighting. Learn more<https://healthleadership.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c8b1ab9f5dec8c02ab1a882b&id=6f9b2f2def&e=2340602ad1>.

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