The Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook Has Arrived!
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The National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC) is proud to announce a unique new publication that shines a spotlight on the critical role that prevention should play in addressing our nation’s opioid epidemic, including strategies – or “plays” – that communities can replicate or adapt for real-time use.
The Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook is derived from the growing number of efforts by practitioners, researchers and policy-makers around the country to “get upstream” of this national crisis, in addition to providing treatment and saving lives.
In the Press: Rowan College of South Jersey Hosts Opioid Prevention Playbook Workshop (SNJ Today)

Blog
It’s Time to Add Prevention to the Fight Against the Opioid Epidemic; New Playbook Focuses on 11 Replicable Strategies to `Go Upstream’.
In our view, one potentially vital component of a truly comprehensive approach to addressing the opioid epidemic has received short-shrift to date: Prevention... we are suggesting that additional attention and resources should go to “upstream” activities so that this public health emergency abates – and maybe even ends – over time. Read more »»
Webinar
Getting Upstream of the Opioid Crisis: The Critical Role of Prevention
Time: March 8, 2019, from 1:00pm to 2:30pm ET
Location: Conference Call Access (Registrants-Only)
Our next Deeper Dive webinar did focus on the critical importance of “getting upstream” to more-effectively combat the most-devastating public health crisis in modern U.S. history. The presentations did include discussion of the NIC Opioid Use Disorder Prevention Playbook, which examines replicable strategies being tested across the country to accomplish that goal. Read more »»
Check out the plays
(click on each play to view a summary)
In Their Words!
– Peter Eckart, Co-Director, Data Across Sectors for Health
– Dr. William Hazel, Secretary (former), VA Health and Human Services
– Anthony Capizzi, Administrative Judge, Montgomery County Juvenile Court
We Listen!
- For more information about the playbook, please contact Adam Pertman apertman@stewardsofchange.org.
- For more information about the NIC HUB, please contact Sondes Ben Chagra sondes@stewardsofchange.org.