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Each issue of Case Law Monitor highlights unique cases from around the United States in the areas of public health and safety, substance use disorder, and the criminal justice system. Every other month, LAPPA updates readers on cases that are important to the field....
Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) Teams can help states and local jurisdictions determine what factors and characteristics may lead to a possible overdose. This fact sheet explains the origins of OFR and summarizes efforts, throughout the United States, to establish and operate OFR teams....
The restaurant industry has been particularly impacted by the opioid epidemic with, for example, ten percent of food service workers dying from opioid overdoses in the State of Delaware.[1] This sobering statistic prompted the Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) to launch the Restaurant Accolade Program (the Program), which trains all restaurant staff and owners in the state on how to identify, respond to, and reverse an opioid overdose and helps food establishments draft policies that support employees and patrons with substance use disorders (SUDs). The Office of Health Crisis Response (OCHR) within DPH conducts the training and education....
Each issue of News Bites highlights unique news articles from around the United States in the areas of public health and safety, substance use disorder, and the criminal justice system. Every other month, LAPPA updates readers on news they may have missed....
This fact sheet describes the current status of good samaritan fatal overdose prevention laws throughout the United States and contains findings from interviews with state drug control officials concerning the application and effectiveness of such laws....
Naloxone is an emergency opioid antagonist that works by reversing the effects of an opioid overdose. Specifically, naloxone prevents decreased breathing which typically happens when someone overdoses on an opioid and must be given when someone shows the first sign of an overdose. Naloxone access laws delineate how someone may legally access naloxone in a particular state or jurisdiction. This includes which individuals can prescribe, dispense, or administer naloxone and what forms of civil or criminal immunity are provided, if any, for the use of the opioid reversal drug. All 50 states and the District of Columbia have some form of naloxone access law. This fact sheet provides readers with an overview of what naloxone is and a brief overview of naloxone access law across the United States....
Each issue of Case Law Monitor highlights unique cases from around the United States in the areas of public health and safety, substance use disorder, and the criminal justice system. Every other month, LAPPA updates readers on cases that are important to the field....
In September 2021, Georgetown University Law Center convened an Opioid Litigation Summit. This convening brought together numerous experts to discuss legal, administrative, and programmatic strategies needed to optimize the impact of proceeds from the opioid litigation. The themes described in this brief emerged from the Summit and can be applied to the opioid litigation as well as future mass tort litigation to address public health crises....
Each issue of News Bites highlights unique news articles from around the United States in the areas of public health and safety, substance use disorder, and the criminal justice system. Every other month, LAPPA updates readers on news they may have missed....
When Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro learned that approximately 15 citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania die each day from an overdose, he took action. As a result, in May of 2018, he launched the Law Enforcement Treatment Initiative (LETI) to connect individuals suffering with a substance use disorder (SUD) to treatment resources....