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Welcome to the Substance Use & Overdose Continuum Digest Monthly Newsletter

The Substance Use & Overdose Continuum Digest is a live dashboard and resource hub for statewide partners who work across the substance use and overdose continuum spanning prevention, treatment, recovery, response, and harm reduction. The Digest is developed and maintained by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Injury & Violence Prevention Program. Visit the Digest for local, national, and regional updates, webinars and trainings, job postings, data, research, and more. 

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Communities of Practice

The Substance Use & Overdose Continuum Communities of Practice engage partners in all stages of substance use and overdose prevention, treatment, recovery, and response to share best practices, resources, and experiences. Time is spent each meeting getting to know the work we do at the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), sharing statewide and local resources, establishing partnerships, and discussing the monthly topic area.

To register and learn more, click each topic area to the right.

3^rd Wednesday of each month

12:00 – 1:00 PM PT

Monthly Community of Practice Highlight: Data & Surveillance

The Data & Surveillance Community of Practice (CoP) offers data capacity building and technical assistance opportunities. In this CoP, learn how IVPP can support partners with developing, maintaining, and disseminating diverse data sources for overdose monitoring and tracking.

Topic: "Why the Data Do Not Match"
Date: Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM PT 

Register for the Data & Surveillance CoP now!

The 2025 Oregon Conference on Opioids + Other Drugs, Pain and Addiction Treatment (OPAT)

Coming Together for Strength and Sustainability

Lines for Life, in collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority and other community leaders, is thrilled to convene state and regional change agents at the 2025 Oregon Conference on Opioid + Other Drugs, Pain, and Addiction Treatment (OPAT) this Fall. This year’s event is focused on the exchange of successful initiatives and ways we can work together on solutions for our communities.

Join us at OPAT 2025 to help us foster a sense of unity and shared purpose among participants. During the conference participants will explore and advance innovative pain management and addiction treatment approaches, share current research and data, highlight interdisciplinary and culturally specific models, and enhance multi-system collaboration to build sustainable strategies for a rapidly changing landscape. We will also consider the challenges and opportunities of new federal legislation, allowing us to build collective strategies to preserve and expand access to care.

The 2025 OPAT Conference is an opportunity to share our science and our stories — a place for healthcare professionals, prevention and public health specialists, peers and harm reduction experts, emergency and community support professionals, government and education leaders, and other stakeholders invested in this work to come together in solidarity.

When: November 3rd-5th
Where: Sunriver, OR

Learn more and register for OPAT here!

October is Substance Use & Misuse Prevention Month — tell your prevention story.

To inspire action, each of us can share how prevention is improving lives in our community.

• We aim to prevent substance use in the first place, prevent the progression of use (to a disorder), and prevent consequences associated with use. And we have the prevention playbook to do so.
• Prevention science (with decades of research and community-based experience) shows that prevention works.
• Prevention strengthens protective factors and reduces risk factors ― in individuals, families, schools, communities, and society.
• Prevention helps us get ahead of substance use and mental health challenges — so that youth, families, and communities can thrive.

Prevention Month lifts up the national conversation — to showcase prevention’s positive effects on communities across the country.

Check out the toolkit here!

Don't miss the upcoming Save Lives Oregon Learning Collaborative!

Consider joining a Save Lives Oregon Learning Collaborative! Held monthly on topics identified by community organizations doing on the ground work across the state.

Topic: "Methamphetamine in Oregon"
Date: Thursday, October 16th, 2025
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM PST

Register here!

Upcoming Events

• ECHO: Substance Use disorders in jails
• ECHO Foundations of Substance Use Disorder Care I
• ECHO: Substance Use Disorder in Pregnancy and Postpartum Care
• ECHO: Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
• Oregon Prevention Research-Practice-Policy Exchange Forum
• Breaking Barriers: Stigma Reduction in Healthcare Settings
• Working Together: Motivational Interviewing for Co-Occurring Disorders in Indigenous Communities
• Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT) Conference 
• NWATTC Webinar: The Power of Affirming Care in SUD Recovery
• And more!

New Resources

• Good Samaritan Fatal Overdose Prevention and Drug-induced Homicide: Summary of State Laws
• Barriers to Universal Availability of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in US Jails
• Supporting Health for All through REinvestment (SHARE) 2024 Spending Plan Summary
• Practical Ways to Implement the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain among American Indian and Alaska Native Patients
• Oregon Department of Education Substance Use Prevention Education
• ENGAGE: Evidence-Based Strategies to Prevent Youth Substance Use
• Kratom: Summary of State Laws
• And more!

Call for Applications

• Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program Grant
• Innovative and Upstream Approaches For Injury and Violence Prevention Seed Grants
• Public Health Data Modernization Implementation Center (IC) Program Wave 2 Funding
• Mentoring for Youth Affected by Opioid and Other Substance Use Funding
• Center for Public Health Practice Administrator 
• School Outreach Officer I
• Behavioral Health Supervisor
• Director of Public Health
• And more!

Reducing Opioid Overdose and Misuse Resources

Oregon Health Authority Injury & Violence Prevention Program offers relevant information, factsheets, and data dashboards. Visit the website for more information.

The Digest is an ongoing work in progress, if you have any questions or feedback please email ivpp.general@odhsoha.oregon.gov.