Using Near Real-Time Data to Enhance Coordinated Community Responses to Opioid Overdose in City of Detroit, Michigan

Using Near Real-time Data to Enhance Coordinated Community Responses to Opioid Overdose in Detroit, Michigan

A new guide created for public health professionals, public safety officials, community coalitions, treatment providers, emergency personnel, and others, detailing actions communities can take to strengthen their coordinated community responses to opioid overdose, using data from the System for Opioid Overdose Surveillance (SOS). This guide was created in collaboration with stakeholders in the city of Detroit, Michigan.

About the Toolkit

Background on Opioids, Opioid Overdose, Naloxone, and Michigan Legislation

Information to help understand opioids and the basis for the strategies in this toolkit:

  • What are Opioids?
  • Signs of an Opioid Overdose and What to Do
  • About Naloxone
  • Michigan Legislation

SOS and The Role of Data in Overdose Response Strategies

An in-depth overview of the System for Opioid Overdose Surveillance (SOS):

  • The need for near real-time overdose data
  • What is SOS?
  • Example of an SOS Suspected Overdose Report
  • How to request SOS dashboard access

Community Stakeholders
in Detroit, Michigan

Explore coordinated community response strategies broken down by stakeholder sector (public health, public safety, treatment providers, and community outreach). Each sector details promising opioid overdose response strategies, barriers to these strategies, and how near real-time data can impact these barriers and strategies.

Public Health

How strategies such as improved coordination amongst organizations, implementation of anonymous overdose reporting platforms, and dissemination of policy briefings can enhance opioid overdose response and prevention efforts among public health stakeholders.

Public Safety

Provides insight into how sharing fatal and non-fatal overdose data across police units, collaboration with community organizations, and engagement with youth populations can strengthen the opioid overdose response and prevention efforts among public safety stakeholders.

Treatment Providers

How strategies such as collaborating with other treatment organizations, creation of mobile care units, and implementation of pop-up naloxone clinics in the community can strengthen opioid overdose response and prevention efforts among treatment provider stakeholders.

Community Outreach

How strategies such as increasing community outreach, strengthening collaboration among organizations, and educating the community on alternatives to opioids for pain management can enhance opioid overdose response and prevention efforts among outreach and prevention response stakeholders.

Recommendations for Response Strategies

A culmination of stakeholder recommendations for enhancing data-driven opioid overdose response efforts.