Fact Sheet

Overview Nationwide, state and local public health officials working to protect the public from COVID-19 are on the receiving end of threatening and harassing conduct…

Overview Nationwide, state and local public health officials working to protect the public from COVID-19 are on the receiving end of threatening and harassing conduct…

Overview Nationwide, state and local public health officials working to protect the public from COVID-19 are on the receiving end of threatening and harassing conduct…

Overview Nationwide, state and local public health officials working to protect the public from COVID-19 are on the receiving end of threatening and harassing conduct…

Overview Nationwide, state and local public health officials working to protect the public from COVID-19 are on the receiving end of threatening and harassing conduct…

Overview Nationwide, state and local public health officials working to protect the public from COVID-19 are on the receiving end of threatening and harassing conduct…

Overview Nationwide, state and local public health officials working to protect the public from COVID-19 are on the receiving end of threatening and harassing conduct…

Overview Nationwide, state and local public health officials working to protect the public from COVID-19 are on the receiving end of threatening and harassing conduct…

Overview Nationwide, state and local public health officials working to protect the public from COVID-19 are on the receiving end of threatening and harassing conduct…

Drug overdose continues to claim the lives of tens of thousands of people in the U.S. every year. Opioids, both prescription painkillers and street drugs such as heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl, are responsible for the majority of these deaths. In response, states have passed legislation to increase access to the opioid overdose reversal medication naloxone, including provisions that allow for the distribution of naloxone through pharmacies. Some states have gone further and now require that naloxone be prescribed or offered to some patients. This fact sheet describes those requirements and links to the relevant laws.

This fact sheet addresses 988’s key features, including why it was adopted, current suicide trends and risks, covered provider obligations and timing, and some key features of recent supportive legislation.

The health and wellness of tribal nations depend on effective data collection and analysis. Despite being sovereign nations, tribes need help from the states in gathering the data needed to improve tribal health and well-being, but a lack of trust has interfered with data sharing arrangements. The keys to establishing and maintaining trust are respecting tribal data sovereignty and honoring the United States’ trust responsibility to tribal nations. This fact sheet focuses on strategies states should take to support indigenous data sovereignty.