Key Initiatives:

1. Enhanced epidemiology
2. Substance use disorder treatment
3. Public health focus on overdoses
4. Efforts to address overdoses on pharmaceutical opioids
5. Naloxone
6. Emergency response plan  

For this discussion question, choose one of the key initiatives and address the following:

1. What is the benefit of this initiative to achieve a reduction in opioid overdoses (the objective of the policy)?

2. What challenges do you foresee in achieving this initiative?

3. If you were able to amend this initiative, what would you add to increase its effectiveness?

Link:

http://bha.dhmh.maryland.gov/OVERDOSE_PREVENTION/Documents/MarylandOpioidOverdosePreventionPlan2013%20(4).pdf