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Opioid Safety and Advocacy Toolkit
There are many possible solutions to address the various elements of the current opioid crisis. These complex issues require the expertise of many stakeholders from healthcare, the communities and policy agencies in each state for success. CRNAs, SRNAs and state associations are uniquely positioned to contribute through leadership or participation in collaborative initiatives to reduce the impact of the opioid crisis in their state. The AANA offers this toolkit checklist to provide guidance and help identify opportunities to create, lead or serve when asked to be involved in a state or community initiative.
What are the opioid initiatives in your state?*
Alabama - Georgia
- State of Alabama Opioid Action Plan
- Alaska Opioid Policy Task Force
- Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act 2018
- Arkansas Prescription Drug Abuse
- Strategies to Address Prescription Drug (Opioid) Misuse, Abuse, and Overdose Epidemic in California
- Colorado ALTO Project
- Colorado Plan to Reduce Prescription Drug Abuse
- Connecticut Opioid REsponse Initiative
- How Delaware is Addressing the Opioid Epidemic (presentation slides)
- Florida Opioid State Targeted Response Project
- Georgia Opioid State Targeted Response
*If your state has resources to add to this list, please email them to practice@aana.com
Hawaii - Louisiana
- Hawaii Opioid Initiative – A Statewide Response
- Idaho Opioid Misuse and Overdose Strategic Plan 2017-2022
- State of Illinois Opioid Action Plan
- Indiana’s Integrated Response to the Opioid Epidemic
- Iowa Opioid STR Strategic Plan
- Opioid Epidemic in Kansas
- Kentucky - The Heroin Epidemic
- Addressing Opioid Addiction and Overdose in New Orleans
- Opioids: The Problem and the Challenge in Louisiana
*If your state has resources to add to this list, please email them to practice@aana.com
Maine - Montana
- Maine’s New Opioid Prescribing Laws and Maine’s Opioid Problem (presentation slides)
- Maine Task Force to Address Opioid Crisis in the State, Final Report
- Maryland Opioid Overdose Prevention Plan
- Massachusetts Governor’s Opioid Addiction Working Group
- Massachusetts Action Plan to Address the Opioid Epidemic in the Commonwealth
- Michigan Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Task Force
- Michigan Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Commission
- Michigan Safe Treatment of Post-Surgical Pain
- Minnesota Nurse Anesthetists Learn Methods for Addressing National Opioid Crisis
- Minnesota Opioid Action Plan
- Minnesota Opioid Prescribing Work Group
- Minnesota Daily: Nurse Anesthetists Learn Methods for Addressing National Opioid Crisis
- Mississippi Opioid and Heroin Data Collaborative
- Missouri Opioid Crisis
- Addressing Substance Use Disorder in Montana Strategic Plan: Interim Draft Report
*If your state has resources to add to this list, please email them to practice@aana.com
Nebraska - North Carolina
- Nebraska State Targeted Response to the Opioid Crisis (presentation slides)
- Nebraska State Targeted Response (STR) Opioid Crisis Grant
- State of Nevada Plan to Reduce Prescription Drug Abuse
- New Hampshire Opiate/Opioid Public Health Crisis
- Confronting New Jersey’s New Drug Problem: A Strategic Action Plan to Address a Burgeoning Heroin/Opiate Epidemic Among Adolescents and Young Adults
- New Mexico Prescription Opioid Safety
- New York - NYS Association of Nurse Anesthetists Focused on Opioid-Free Anesthesia
- New York State's Opioid Overdose Prevention Program
- New York Combating the Heroin and Opioid Crisis, Heroin and Opioid Task Force Report
- North Carolina Quality Center
- North Carolina Opioid Action Plan
*If your state has resources to add to this list, please email them to practice@aana.com
North Dakota - South Dakota
- North Dakota Preventing Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse
- Ohio County Sees Dramatic Decrease in Overdose Deaths
- Ohio Action Guide to Address Opioid Abuse
- Reducing Prescription Drug Abuse in Oklahoma
- Oregon Reducing Opioid Overdose and Misuse
- Pennsylvania Treating and Preventing Opioid Addiction
- Rhode Island Overdose Prevention and Intervention Task Force
- Rhode Island’s Strategic Plan on Addiction and Overdose: Four Strategies to Alter the Course of an Epidemic
- South Carolina House of Representatives Opioid Abuse Prevention Study Committee
- South Dakota’s Statewide Targeted Response to The Opioid Crisis
- South Dakota Prescription Opioid Abuse Prevention Initiative
*If your state has resources to add to this list, please email them to practice@aana.com
Tennessee - Wyoming
- TN Together: A Comprehensive Plan to End the Opioid Crisis in Tennessee
- Texas Opioid Drug Utilization Inspection
- Utah Budget Deep-Dive Into Opioid Outreach Efforts
- Vermont Governor’s Opioid Coordination Council
- Vermont Initial Report of Recommended Strategies
- Virginia Saving Lives and Addressing the Heroin/Opioid Epidemic
- Washington State Opioid Plan
- Opioid Response Plan for the State of West Virginia
- Wisconsin Combating Opioid Abuse
- Wyoming Substance Abuse Prevention Program
A Collaborative Approach to Responding to the Opioid Epidemic
- Community in Crisis: A Collaborative Approach to Responding to the Opioid Epidemic (webinar)
- Webinar slides include “Clinical Practice Controlled Substance Prescribing Workbook” and “Community Partners Coalition 2018 Guide to Health: Combatting the Opioid Epidemic Action Plan”
- Access the webinar recording
- Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Saves Lives