Applied prevention science to the opioid epidemic

Prevention Institute staff authored “Addressing Community Trauma and Building Community Resilience to Prevent Opioid Misuse and Addiction,” a chapter in the book A Public Health Guide to Ending the Opioid Epidemic. It describes the value of elevating primary prevention in the fight against the opioid epidemic. That means going beyond preventing opioid overdoses and deaths to preventing substance misuse in the first place by addressing the community conditions that put people at risk. PI also worked with 12 Ohio counties hard hit by the opioid epidemic to apply this community-level, upstream prevention approach. * This book was published by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO). PI’s work on opioids was supported by the Well Being Trust and the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.