Project Save Miami Valley
Montgomery, Darke, and Preble counties will receive a $2M grant over the next four years. This federal grant will ensure more first responders are equipped with Narcan. Officials say by providing more officers with anti-overdose medication, more than seven thousand overdose victims will be helped.
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Prescription Drug Abuse is simply non-medical use. It is the use of a medication without a prescription, using it in way other than prescribed, or for the experience or feeling elicited.
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Opioids are medications that relieve pain. They reduce the intensity of pain signals that reach the brain and affect those brain areas that control emotion, which diminishes the effects of the painful stimulus.
Examples include: Hydrocodone - Vicodin Oxycodone - OxyContin, Percocet Morphine - Kadian, Avinza Codeine |
Heroin is a highly addictive drug derived from morphine, which is obtained from the opium poppy. It is a depressant that affects the brain's pleasure systems and like Opioids, interferes with the brain's ability to perceive pain.
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Ohio Responds: The State addresses the problem in the following ways:
Surveillence of drug overdose trends and patterns on Ohio Drug Overdose website .
Coordinating the Prescription Drug Abuse Action Group.
Funding three local prescription drug overdose prevention projects from 2014 to 2018, including education of health care prescribers & service providers, implemention of prescribing guidelines, and formation of a poison death review.
Providing Opioid Prescribing Guidelines - for emergency and acute care facilities; and treatment of chronic, non-terminal pain.
Increase access to Naloxone via Project Dawn.
Encouraging excess drug disposal solutions and methods by providing 66 drug drop boxes to 23 southern Ohio counties, including Preble County.
Promote public education with the Governor's Start Talking! campaign.
Coordinating the Prescription Drug Abuse Action Group.
Funding three local prescription drug overdose prevention projects from 2014 to 2018, including education of health care prescribers & service providers, implemention of prescribing guidelines, and formation of a poison death review.
Providing Opioid Prescribing Guidelines - for emergency and acute care facilities; and treatment of chronic, non-terminal pain.
Increase access to Naloxone via Project Dawn.
Encouraging excess drug disposal solutions and methods by providing 66 drug drop boxes to 23 southern Ohio counties, including Preble County.
Promote public education with the Governor's Start Talking! campaign.