Response Resources

2018-2022 Statewide Opioid Action Plan

The 2018-2022 Statewide Opioid Action Plan is a collaborative blueprint for state agencies and partner organizations to follow in the continued work to control Alaska’s opioid epidemic. The five-year action plan, compiled by the Office of Substance Misuse and Addiction Prevention (OSMAP), was developed with broad input from multiple agencies and community partners. Feedback was gathered from hundreds of Alaskans at more than a dozen stakeholder meetings and community cafés.

Alaska Publications

• Emergency Department Needs Assessments for Addressing Opioids Misuse and Addiction in Alaska are available for review in this overview document, and in full form in McDowell Group written reports Part One and Part Two.
• Highlights of Statewide Opioid Action Plan Progress: Reports to the Alaska State Legislature
  • Alaska's Opioid Response, 2020-2021
  • Alaska's Opioid Response, 2019-2020
  • Alaska's Opioid Response, 2018-2019
    
• The Economic Costs of Drug Abuse in Alaska — 2016 Update - McDowell Group Report
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• Alaska Opioid Policy Task Force Recommendations — 2017
• Find Alaska data on opioids on the Alaska opioid data dashboard page.
• Review sharable materials at the useful materials page.

Alaska Epidemiology Bulletins

• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome among Medicaid-Eligible Births — Alaska, 2004–2015
• Increase in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome — Alaska, 2001–2015
• Update on Drug Overdose Deaths — Alaska, 2016 (April 20, 2017)
• Drug Overdose Deaths in Alaska — 2009-2015 (March 24, 2016)
• A Systematic Approach to Prescribing Opioids and Monitoring Patient Progress — April 6, 2016
• Health Impacts of Heroin Use in Alaska — July 13, 2015
• Health Impacts of Opioid Misuse in Alaska — August 8, 2018

Additional resources to better understand and respond to the problem

• ASTHO Podcast Series, The Epidemic of Epidemics: Opioids, Part I, February 28, 2018
• State Health Leadership Opioids Panel Discussion at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, September 2017 (YouTube video)
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) on Opioids
• CDC MMWR: Vital Signs: Demographic and Substance Use Trends Among Heroin Users — United States, 2002–2013
• CDC Vital Signs: Today’s Heroin Epidemic: More people at risk, multiple drugs abused
• CDC Vital Signs: Heroin Use Graphic
• CDC Materials on Syringe Services Programs
  
• American Academy of Pediatrics: A Public Health Response to Opioid Use in Pregnancy