SOS Testimonials

“We would not have access to this breadth of data without [SOS], and it would not be as easily distributed.”

Outreach and Prevention Organization

“I shared the [SOS] with our [teams], and it generated a lot of discussion of where we could focus our energy around harm reduction … It was a really useful tool and we got great feedback on it.”

Outreach Organization

“It helps us to determine where we could set up a mobile site or at least go out and do education about where we are as a fixed site…or we could tell them that there is gonna be a group on such-and-such a day and sign people up…we’ll do naloxone education and just distribution right then.”

Outreach and Prevention Organization

“We reviewed the data with our coalition members…to assess problem spots in our target areas.”

Harm Reduction Organization

“The numbers have been going up. We need to start seeing them come down and it’s the responsibility of all of us.  We all have a role to play…we have to save a life to see the numbers coming down, and that would be a primary indicator of our success in how we’re doing.”

Local Public Health Department

“My number one job is to ensure that you have the data you need to do your job and we rely heavily on SOS in this space.”

Local Public Health Department

“If you know you have a high-trend area and this is where the overdoses are happening, as soon as we get that real-time information, we can be in that area and provide those Narcan kits.”

Treatment Agency

“As soon as we have an overdose it gets sent to me…so [SOS] would be good information in that we can figure out locations and because that means there’s a bad batch of heroin going around, what could we do? Go back to that neighborhood and start informing the community.”

Law Enforcement Agency

“One recovery coach recognized the trend of overdoses in a specific community and warned clients about the risk.”

Outreach Organization

“So, when you see that data come out, you can say, okay, here’s an area that’s hyped for usage, that’s where we should be doing our street teams… we actually canvas areas sometimes on foot with the opportunity to take advantage of the services we offer.  So, when we learn that there is an area where overdoses are occurring, which means there’s probably a fair amount of illegal distribution of it, we think that’s a target area.  That’s been our primary use of the data.”

Outreach and Prevention Organization