Drug and Alcohol Use

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Iowa HHS - Bureau of Emergency Medical and Trauma Services

Phone: 515-608-9162

Strategy Name: First Responder Addiction & Recovery Program

Goal or Desired Outcome: Connect people to services after overdose and distribute naloxone free of charge to participating EMS service programs.

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Iowa HHS - Bureau of Substance Abuse

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Strategy Name: Expanding availability of naloxone in Iowa

Goal or Desired Outcome: Reduce the number of deaths involving opioids by making naloxone more readily accessible.

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Iowa Dept. of Public Safety - Governor's Traffic Safety Bureau

Link to website

Phone: 515-725-6120

Strategy Name: Impaired Driving Task Force

Goal or Desired Outcome: Consider and implement recommendations received as a result of a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-facilitated Impaired Driving Program Assessment.

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Iowa Dept. of Public Safety - Office of Drug Control Policy

Link to website

Phone: 515-805-4115

Strategy Name: 

  1. Deflection & Pre-Arrest Diversion to Treatment
  2. Prescription Drug Take Back

Goal or Desired Outcome:

  1. Increase Iowans' timely access to substance use disorder treatment through greater use of pathways that offer an accountable alternative to incarceration
  2. Reduce the amount of unused medications susceptible to diversion and misuse by Iowans.
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Iowa Office of the State Medical Examiner's Office

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Phone: 515-326-5703

Strategy Name: Overdose Data to Action (OD2A)

Goal or Desired Outcome: Collect data from all 99 counties on accidental fatal drug overdoses and utilize the data to inform prevention and response efforts.

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VBC SAFE & LC The Best You Coalitions

Phone: 319-293-2579

Strategy Name:

  1. Merchant Alcohol Training & Compliance Checks
  2. Policy Work to address Marijuana Business Zoning

Goal or Desired Outcome:

  1. Ensure that underage community members do not have access to alcohol through retail outlets.
  2. Provide places for marijuana businesses to be located in our communities that do not allow youth access to them or to be influenced by them.
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Wright County Public Health

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Phone: 515-532-3461

Strategy Name: Opioid Reduction Task Team (ORTT)

Goal or Desired Outcome: Provide access to services to reduce opioid misuse and increase Narcan accessibility, education on its use, and recognition of abuse or overdose.

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