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Data & CQI Veronica Johnson Data & CQI Veronica Johnson

The Fentalog Study: A Subset of Nonfatal Suspected Opioid-Involved Overdoses with Toxicology Testing

Using data from The Fentalog Study, this dashboard provides estimates of substances detected in samples from patients experiencing a suspected opioid-involved overdose. These data can be used in combination with nonfatal drug overdose data from the CDC’s Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology (DOSE) system to improve understanding of drug use patterns in nonfatal overdoses.

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Data & CQI Jalyn Burns Data & CQI Jalyn Burns

Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC) 

The Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC) is a multicenter toxicosurveillance and research network. As a toxicosurveillance network, ToxIC can detect new and emerging drugs of abuse, adverse effects of new medications in the post-marketing phase, and emerging toxicological threats. On their webpage you can explore their various projects like the Fentalog Project, learn more about ToxIC, and more.

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Data & CQI PHI CHLI Data & CQI PHI CHLI

CDC’s New Fatal Overdose Data Visualization Dashboard from the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS)

The CDC’s Division of Overdose Prevention developed an interactive data visualization tool, the SUDORS dashboard, which displays fatal overdose data from 2020. Participating jurisdictions provide data abstracted from multiple data sources including death certificates, medical examiner/coroner reports, and postmortem toxicology.

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Utilizing the CDPH Opioid Safety Dashboard

When looking at the news, we often see numbers for the opioid epidemic, but do those numbers represent where you live? How can you communicate, measure and track key opioid safety indicators for your community? This infographic goes over the key elements of using the California Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboard, created by the California Department of Public Health.

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