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p o suse:Moving Our Country
from
Crisis to Recovery altimore, MD
April 13, 2016
Michael otticelli, Director
Office of National Drug Control Policy
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Total Number of DeathsAge-Adusted Death Rate per !""#"""
$opulation
Increase in Opioid-InvolvedDrug Overdose Deaths, 2000-
2014
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Center for !ealth Statistics" Multiple Cause of
Death1999-2014 on CDC #OD$% Online Data&ase, released
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The number of opioid-involved drug overdosedeaths more than
tripledfrom %""" to %"!'+
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Christas .rother
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Taisha in
Connecticut
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O&a+a d+inistration ctions
•Annual National Drug
Control trategy
•2011 Pre!cription Drug
A"u!e Pre#ention Plan
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nnounce+ents in tlanta•
$%pan&ing acce!! to
me&ication'a!!i!te&
treatment
•(mplementing parity
regulation!
•Pre!cri"er e&ucation for
me& !tu&ent!
•Ma)ing nalo%one a#aila"le
*ithout a pre!cription
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unding for ddressing the $pide+ic
•+ 2016 u&get -a*
• Pa!!e& *ith"iparti!an !upport
•./00 million infun&ing to a&&re!!the opioi&
o#er&o!eepi&emic
• e#i!e& fe&eral "anon fun&ing for !yringe!er#ice
program!
•+ 201 u&get eue!t
• .131 "illion in ne*fun&ing for treatment
•4oul& e%pan& treatmentto area! *here therearen5t
enoughpro#i&er!
• +ir!t time in hi!tory *eplan to !pen& more ontreatment
an&pre#ention than la*enforcement
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3essons 3earned
1 -ea&er!hip Matter!
2 4e Nee& a
Comprehen!i#e an&
Coor&inate& e!pon!e
3 4e Nee& to A&&re!!
-ong'tan&ing (!!ue!
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3anguage atters
•4e ha#e to confront !tigma
•-anguage matter! an& re!earch ha! !ho*n
that *hen *e u!e 7u&gmental term! to &e!cri"e
!omeone *ith a !u"!tance u!e &i!or&er
*or&! li)e 8a&&ict9 or 8a"u!er9 they are
le!! li)ely to recei#e or "e referre& to
treatment
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5ap in 6reat+ent for Illicit Drug 7seDisorders
llicit Drug .se Disorder /ource: S!S, Center for .ehavioral
!ealth Statistics and 8ualit*, ational Surve* on Drug 7se and
!ealth, 2019 and 2014" 6a&le '"44 eed for and %eceipt of
6reat+ent at a Specialt* acilit* for an Illicit Drug Pro&le+ in
the Past ear a+ong Persons ged 12 or Older, &*De+ographic
Characteristics: u+&ers in 6housands and Percentages, 2019 and
2014" vaila&le at http:;;((("sa+hsa"gov;data;sites;default;
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