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Description
In 2017, Kentucky had a drug overdose (DO) age-adjusted mortality rate of 37.2 deaths
per 100,000 residents, 5th highest in the U.S. (CDC/NCHS, 2018). Encouraging
statistics on Kentucky substance use indicate that the percentage of individuals aged 12
and older who engaged in illicit substance use in the past month in Kentucky was 9.02%
compared to 10.90% in the U.S. for 2016-2017 (SAMHSA, 2019). The multifaceted
aspect of the substance use disorder and epidemic require a multipronged approach: 1)
tracking and identification of substance use disorders and drug overdoses through
comprehensive surveillance strategies; and 2) development, implementation, and
evaluation of evidence-informed, evidence-based, and promising prevention program
and policy strategies to reduce the burden of substance use disorders and drug
overdoses in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC), as a bona fide agent for
the Kentucky Department of Public Health, will collaborate with state, university, and
community partners to implement CDC’s Overdose to Action (OD2A) surveillance
strategies including timely analysis of drug overdose emergency department
encounters, fatal drug overdoses using multiple data sources, and an innovative
strategy to implement public health surveillance using remnant serum and urine
samples from patients treated at the University of Kentucky Emergency Department for
suspected drug overdose.
Kentucky OD2A prevention strategies include the integration of Kentucky All Schedule
Prescription Electronic Reporting (KASPER) data into electronic health records to
inform clinical opioid prescribing decision making, integration of state and local
prevention response efforts including support for local health department interventions
and providing community technical assistance, timely linkage to SUD treatment facilities
through FindHelpNowKY.org, establishment of a perinatal quality collaborative to
enhance substance use disorder (SUD) prenatal and perinatal care for better maternal
and infant outcomes, partnership with public safety on joint public health and safety data
sharing and analysis to inform public health interventions and law enforcement
interdiction, development and evaluation of a bystander intervention training targeting
young adults, and establishment of a peer-to-peer learning network for other states to
strengthen their efforts to rapidly link individuals to SUD treatment facilities.
Through improved surveillance and targeted evidenced-based interventions, Kentucky
OD2A hopes to impact inappropriate opioid prescribing, opioid misuse and opioid use
disorder, patient standard of care, referrals to SUD treatment and sustained recovery,
and fatal and non-fatal overdoses, to improve Kentuckian health outcomes.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 9/1/19 → 8/31/23 |
Funding
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention: $29,018,404.00
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Projects
- 8 Finished
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Kentucky Overdose Data to Action: Morbidity Surveillance
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
9/1/19 → 8/31/23
Project: Research project
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Kentucky Overdose Data to Action: Prevention Innovation
Quesinberry, D., Bush, H., Coker, A. & Ellis, A.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
9/1/19 → 8/31/23
Project: Research project
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Kentucky Overdose Data to Action: Innovative Surveillance
Quesinberry, D., Akpunonu, P., Baum, R., Chen, J., Harris, D., Martin, J., Slavova, S. & Yu, M.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
9/1/19 → 8/31/23
Project: Research project