Resources for Overdose Response During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The following resources were compiled by Alison Newman, MPH, Continuing Education Specialist at ADAI.

Care in Hospital Settings

• Caring for Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: ASAM COVID-19 Task Force Recommendations: Addiction Treatment in Hospital Settings During the COVID-19 Crisis, American Society for Addiction Medicine
• Overdose Prevention Strategies for Hospitals During COVID-19, December 2020 webinar featuring Alison Newman, MPH (UW ADAI), Conrad Otterness, MPH (WA DOH), Lauren Whiteside, MD, MS (Harborview), Debbie Waltman, BSN, RN (MultiCare Deaconess), and Abby Berube, MPH (WSHA). Download: video | slides

Overdose Response and Harm Reduction

• Overdose Response During the Covid-19 Pandemic, October 2020 webinar from stopoverdose.org at ADAI along with King County Recovery Coalition, WA DOH, Public Health-SKC, and a few WA State syringe exchange partners
• Overdose prevention and harm reduction guidelines during COVID-19 pandemic, Public Health-Seattle & King County
• COVID-19: Harm Reduction and Overdose Response, BC Centre for Disease Control
• COVID-19 guidance for people who use drugs and harm reduction programs, Harm Reduction Coalition
• Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution
  • Stopoverdose.org: Overdose response video and brochure in English and Spanish, online training
  • WA Department of Health: Overdose brochure in English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
  • How to respond to an opioid overdose, Health and Human Services

Treatment

• Medications for Opioid Use Disorder, UW ADAI brochure
• Washington Recovery Help Line: 1.866.789-1511
  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) Locator
• WA Health Care Authority resources for Opioid Treatment Programs and office based opioid treatment programs
• List of WA Opioid Treatment Programs
• Learn About Treatment, information on medications for opioid use disorder for individual, communities, friends and families, and providers, from the UW ADAI

Safe Prescribing

• Bree Collaborative
• For patients: Opioid Medication & Pain: What You Need to Know, Bree Collaborative
• For providers
  • Opioid Prescribing Practices for Perioperative Pain, Bree Collaborative
  • Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Acute Pain, Bree Collaborative

Prevention

• Safe Medicine Return

Substance use disorder

• Coronavirus resources, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Crisis Support

• 24-hour Crisis Line, 866.427.4747

Provider Consultation

• Psychiatry Consultation Line, 877.WA.PSYCH

Data

• WA State Opioid/Major Drug Interactive Data, UW ADAI
• Overdose Dashboard, WA Department of Health
• Overdose Dashboard, Public Health-Seattle & King County