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This study includes 19 interview transcripts. The overall intent of the interviews was to gather information that could be used to develop and improve a single reporting website for overdose tracking and naloxone distribution metrics that would generate monthly reports to the State of Texas. The goal of this study was to develop and implement a digital ecosystem to improve opioid overdose reporting, tracking, and prevention across Texas. The study also aimed to understand the relationship between substance use behavior, stress response, and social support structures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This study uses qualitative interviews to describe experiences with and preferences for risk communication among three different groups: 1) People 18-25 years old who report using fentanyl, 2) those 35 years old and older who report using fentanyl, and 3) clinicians and community health workers in outpatient-based addiction treatment or harm reduction programs. Within each group, equal numbers of women and men were interviewed to explore age and gender differences in perceptions and preferences.

The overall goal of this study was to develop and test the feasibility of implementing best evidence workplace policy guidelines to reduce opioid use and misuse among working age people, the population primarily affected by the opioid crisis. Researchers developed workplace opioid guidelines to reduce prescription opioid use, decrease opioid misuse and opioid use disorder (OUD), and improve health-related employment outcomes. Researchers then tested the feasibility of implementing these guidelines among construction workers, an occupational group at uniquely high risk of opioid use and fatal overdose. Researchers conducted worker surveys and interviews with leaders of construction unions, employers and health funds. These data helped researchers better describe opioid use in the construction industry and informed an advisory panel of addiction and human resources specialists, construction employers, union officials, and labor-management health fund leaders.

Three dashboards describe nonfatal drug overdoses within the United States: DOSE Dashboard: Nonfatal Overdose Syndromic Surveillance Data DOSE Dashboard: Nonfatal Overdose Emergency Department and Inpatient Hospitalization Discharge Data The Fentalog Study: A Subset of Nonfatal Suspected Opioid Overdoses with Toxicology Testing Data from these dashboards come from separate systems but provide complementary information to understand nonfatal drug overdoses in the United States.

This study used in-depth, semi-structured individual telephone interviews with people in recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD) who had used medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). Questions explored their narrative history of recovery, barriers and facilitators to accessing MOUD, perceptions of MOUD efficacy, the relationship between MOUD and 12-step support groups, treatment in the criminal justice system, and development of an ideal treatment facility. Individuals were recruited using a snowball sampling method involving three syringe service programs between 2018 and 2020.

The State and National Overdose Web (SNOW) dashboard is an interactive dashboard containing regularly updated, aggregated, drug-related outcome data from across the United States. The Dashboard contains information on High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) drug seizures, RADARS (poison control) selected drug indicators (including fentanyl, opioid, and stimulant misuse, abuse, and suicide attempts), wastewater analysis of fentanyl consumption, and links to state dashboard and overdose resources.