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Centerstone, a not-for-profit providing mental health and substance
abuse treatment, is extending its mobile opioid crisis response team to Jackson
County. The team is responsible for engaging community members, law
enforcement, healthcare workers and clergymen to make referrals for anyone who
has experienced a drug overdose. Once the referral is made, Centerstone provides
recovery coaches and other services to support recovery. The response team also
serves Bartholomew, Brown, Jennings, Lawrence, Morgan and Monroe counties.
A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found
that across 10 states the number of overdose deaths involving the potent
narcotic fentanyl and variations of the drug nearly doubled between the last
half of 2016 and the first half of 2017. Fentanyl is being detected in
combination with drugs such as benzodiazepines, counterfeit opioid pills,
ketamine and methamphetamine. Click
here to view the full report.
Purdue Extension is addressing Indiana’s opioid crisis by providing
community-based prevention education. The organization is offering an eight-hour
training titled “Mental Health First Aid” to teach participants how to identify,
understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders.
Several courses will be offered at various locations across the state. Click
here to sign up.
The U.S. Department of Justice has finalized a rule that would increase
the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA’s) authority over the production of
opioids. The rule gives the agency the power to lower manufacturing quotas if
it believes that large amounts of an opioid are being diverted for misuse. The
regulation also requires the DEA to share more information about the quotas
with state attorneys general, who could ask for hearings if they object to the
DEA's production limits.
ISDH, in partnership with the Indiana Prevention Resource Center and
the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, will host free
Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Provider
Training. SBIRT is an evidence-based practice used to identify, reduce and
prevent problematic use, abuse and dependence on alcohol and illicit drugs.
This three-session training program will be offered at three different
locations across the state. If spots fill up, please email indianatrauma@isdh.in.gov to be placed on the waitlist.
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