harm reduction
Lock Boxes
Beyond the Save and our consortium partner UP CTC collaborated to purchase and distribute prescription drug lock boxes in the UP. The goal is to prevent opioid abuse by limiting access to these drugs.
Community partners including law enforcement, pharmacies, and health departments helped with distribution, and Range Telecommunications' security team transported the lock boxes from Marquette to other counties.
Overdose Reversal
Narcan (also known as Naloxone) is a medication designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose. It is an opioid antagonist—meaning that it binds to opioid receptors and can reverse and block the effects of other opioids. It can very quickly (but in some cases, only temporarily) restore normal respiration to a person whose breathing has slowed or stopped as a result of overdosing with heroin or prescription opioid pain medications.
Anyone can purchase Narcan at their local pharmacy. Contact your CTC coalition to find Narcan trainings in your area, or find resources for free Narcan.
Syringe Services Program
Syringe Services Programs (SSP) are community-based public health programs that provides clean needles and related harm reduction to individuals who use syringe drugs. SSPs are found to reduce drug use--people who inject drugs are five times as likely to enter treatment for substance use disorder and more likely to reduce or stop injecting when they use an SSP.
SSP sites are just beginning to emerge in the UP. Contact your local health department for more information.
OPI Safe: A comprehensive response to the opioid crisis
With OpiSafe, you can prescribe opioids with greater confidence that ever before. Designed by experts in clinical and pharmaceutical science, OpiSafe combines many of the recognized best practices for prescribing opiates in easy to use interfaces.
Here are just a few of the benefits of using OpiSafe to manage your opioid prescribing:
- Risk Reduction
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- Calculate Morphine Equivalents
- Quicker Access to PDMP Reports
- Easier Management of Patient Agreements
- Proven Patient Engagement
Learn More
You can start using OpiSafe today. No credit card is required. Your first 90 days are free.
After 90 days, OpiSafe provides you a quote based on the services you use. You can choose to subscribe to OpiSafe's premium services on continue using OpiSafe's free services.
prevention
Communities That Care (CTC)
Communities That Care (CTC)
Communities That Care (CTC)
Coalitions in each county working to prevent dangerous youth behaviors
Safe Rx Drug Disposal
Communities That Care (CTC)
Communities That Care (CTC)
Find year-round prescription drug disposal sites across the Upper Peninsula
Mental Health First Aid
Communities That Care (CTC)
Mental Health First Aid
Training that teaches participants about mental health and substance-use issues.
Are you a health care provider?
The NHSC builds healthy communities by supporting qualified health care providers dedicated to working in areas of the United States with limited access to care.
Scholarships, loan repayment options, and more are available to providers interested in obtaining a MAT waiver. Learn more online at https://nhsc.hrsa.gov/.
Support for Healthier Births
If you are pregnant and struggling with opioid use, talk to your doctor right away. Addiction to opioids is a disease, and you and your baby both deserve medical care for a healthier start.