Rhode Island State Epidemiology and Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW) The community profiles describe all 39 Rhode Island municipalities. The three components of these profiles are (1) Demographic and Substance Use Summary; (2) Community Comparisons; and (3) Alcohol Time...
Prescription Drugs
Central Falls Epi Community Profile
Rhode Island State Epidemiology and Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW) The community profiles describe all 39 Rhode Island municipalities. The three components of these profiles are (1) Demographic and Substance Use Summary; (2) Community Comparisons; and (3) Alcohol Time...
Burrillville Epi Community Profile
Rhode Island State Epidemiology and Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW) The community profiles describe all 39 Rhode Island municipalities. The three components of these profiles are (1) Demographic and Substance Use Summary; (2) Community Comparisons; and (3) Alcohol Time...
Bristol Epi Community Profile
Rhode Island State Epidemiology and Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW) The community profiles describe all 39 Rhode Island municipalities. The three components of these profiles are (1) Demographic and Substance Use Summary; (2) Community Comparisons; and (3) Alcohol Time...
Barrington Epi Community Profile
Rhode Island State Epidemiology and Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW) The community profiles describe all 39 Rhode Island municipalities. The three components of these profiles are (1) Demographic and Substance Use Summary; (2) Community Comparisons; and (3) Alcohol Time...
Epidemic: Responding to America’s Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis
Executive Office of the President of the United States, 2011 This Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Plan expands upon the Administration’s National Drug Control Strategy and includes action in four major areas to reduce prescription drug abuse: education, monitoring,...
Policy Impact: Prescription Painkiller Overdoses.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011 This document provides basic facts on prescription painkiller overdose in the U.S. and CDC policy recommendations to prevent it.
Opioid Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Distribution in Rhode Island
Michael A. Yokell, ScB, Traci C. Green, MSc, PhD, Sarah Bowman, MPH, Michelle McKenzie, MPH, and Josiah D. Rich, MD, MPH, 2011 This public access manuscript published in 2011 presents an overview and evaluation of a pilot overdose prevention program in Rhode Island....
Opioid Overdose: Preventing and reducing opioid overdose mortality
UN Office on Drugs and Crime and World Health Organization, 2013 This discussion paper outlines the facts about opioid overdose (responsible for 70000 to 100,000 deaths worldwide each year), the actions that can be taken to prevent and treat (reverse) opioid overdose...
Teenage Prescription Drug Abuse
Rhode Island Student Assistance Services 2013 Conference Dr. Michael Fiori's presentation slides: provide an overview of the similarities and differences in adolescent and adult substance abuse and the implications for treatment. Risk factors for substance abuse and...