Overdose Prevention 101 Guide

Data & Measurement

Data can help you make the case for overdose prevention in your community, measure progress over time, and sustain investment in strategies that work.

Our COPN Guide to Measurement is designed to help communities use data for action to support your work in overdose prevention. It provides a guided process to help you identify, analyze, and tell a story with data to meet your goals.

Related resources 

• CDC Data Dashboards and Alerts. (data sources)

• Measurement Plan Template (tool)

• Data Saving Lives: How ODMAP can Support Community Efforts to Stop Overdose Deaths (video)

• Understanding Opioid DATA from multiple perspectives (video)

• Lessons Learned in Communicating with Data (video)

• Five Tips for Leveraging Local Overdose Data to Make a Case to Your Community (video)

• How to Conduct a Community Assessment (videos part one and part two)