Opioids & the Medical Community
The Surgeon General has encouraged all health care professionals to Turn The Tide Rx: Be The Solution, Join The Movement, in a call to help end the opioid crisis. Clinicians can learn more and take the Turn The Tide Rx pledge here »
For more information about what North Carolina is doing to prevent opioid misuse: Summary of the NC Strengthen Opioid Misuse Prevention (STOP) Act.
- Summary of NC’s New Opioids Law, the STOP Act
- North Carolina Naloxone Standing Order
- North Carolina’s Response to the Medication and Drug Overdose Epidemic: 2000 to 2015 -Summary of Key Milestones and Prevention Strategies, NC Division of Public Health
- In January 2017, the North Carolina Medical Board voted to replace its opioid position statement with the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. Prescribers are encouraged to familiarize themselves with this resource and use it to guide, but not dictate, their treatment decisions.
- Checklist for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
- Talking to Patients about Prescription Drug Abuse
- North Carolina Drug Control Unit
- NC Controlled Substances Reporting System
- Pain Treatment Toolbox: Non-pharmacologic therapy and non-opioid pharmacologic therapy
- Healthcare Provider’s Role in Addiction Recovery
- Fentanyl Safety Recommendations For First Responders
- Identifying Substance Misuse in the Responder Community
The Injury and Violence Prevention Branch (IVPB) generates multiple resources to help keep their partners informed about overdose in North Carolina:
- Listen to a recording of the core set of overdose data slides.
- Visit the IVPB Poisoning Data page for county-level data tables on opioid dispensing, as well as overdose deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits.
- The Statewide Surveillance Reports folder contains monthly emergency department reports, monthly NC Harm Reduction data updates, and county-level overdose slide sets.
- Quarterly updates to North Carolina’s Opioid Action Plan are available on the NC DHHS Opioid Crisis.
- If you have additional questions about emergency department, emergency medical services (EMS), or law enforcement data please contact Sherani Jagroep at sherani.jagroep@dhhs.nc.gov.
- For all other substance use data questions contact Mary Beth Cox at marybeth.cox@dhhs.nc.gov.