THURSDAY Salisbury Afshar
THURSDAY Salisbury Afshar
THURSDAY Salisbury Afshar
Retail opioid
prescriptions dispensed
per 100 persons
IL: 56.8
(Highest Arkansas: 114.6)
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/maps/rxstate2016.html
Retail opioid prescriptions dispensed per 100
persons, by county—U.S. 2016
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/maps/rxcounty2016.html
Rates of Drug Overdose Deaths, 2016
26.7
25
20
14.7 15.5
15 13.3
10.4 10.7
10
0
2015 2016
US Illinois Chicago
25
2015 2016
20
17.7
15.5 15.1
15
12.4
10
5
2.7
1.4 1.8
1.1 1.0
0
i ii
All opioids Heroin Fentanyl Opioid pain Methadone
reliever
70
60
50
Rate per 100,000
40
30
20
10
0
15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74
Age range in years
2015 2016
Data reported in: Epidemiology Report: Increase in overdose deaths involving opioids, Chicago 2015-2016
Chicago Opioid-Related Overdose
Deaths by Gender- 2016
45
40.8
40
All Opioids
35 Heroin
Fentanyl
30
Opioid Pain Relievers 27.1
24.4
25 Methadone
20
15 13.3
10 8.7
6.3
5
1.3 1.5 1.5 2
0
Female Male
Data reported in: Epidemiology Report: Increase in overdose deaths involving opioids, Chicago 2015-2016
Opioid-related overdose death rates
by race-ethnicity & opioid type, 2016
Data Source: Cook County Medical Examiner. Community area overdose death rates are crude rates. Deaths are geocoded to location of incident.
Location of 12 deaths could not be accurately identified.
• Understand->
– General information about opioids
– Signs of opioid use disorder
– What is an opioid overdose/risk factors
• Prevent->
– Medication disposal sites
– Overdose prevention tips
OvercomeOpioids.Org
• Respond->
– Signs of an opioid overdose
– How/where to get naloxone
– Legal protections in Illinois around naloxone
(Good Samaritan Act)
– Handouts on how to use naloxone in English and
Spanish
• Recover->
– Explains treatment options
– Local treatment finder
Naloxone Handouts
Naloxone Posters
ChicagoConnects.org
Dissemination of Resources
@ChiPublicHealth /ChicagoPublicHealth
[email protected] www.CityofChicago.org/Health