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Unintentional (i.e., non-suicidal) fatal and
non-fatal opioid
overdoses are the leading cause of injury death in Massachusetts
surpassing the number of deaths from motor vehicle injuries. Efforts to
reduce these numbers are the focus of MassCALL2, a planning and program
implementation grant funded by the
Massachusetts Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS). In Fall River between 2003 and 2006, the
number of fatal opioid-related overdose deaths totaled 60 and non-fatal
overdoses totaled 205. Using SAMHSA's
five-step
Strategic Prevention Framework, Fall River
community health leaders and others are meeting to produce a plan
of response by the end of October, 2008. Jenna Lagasse, working for the
Fall
River Department of Health and Human Services, is leading the
strategic planning process.
Click here
for photos of the initial planning session.
For more information about the project, contact Project Coordinator
Jenna Lagasse at 508-324-2410. |
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(Top row, left) Connie Rocha-Mimoso of Seven Hills Behavioral Health, who heads a DPH-funded Narcan overdose prevention program, offers her perspective on interventions that are most likely to be effective in reducing overdose and accidental deaths. (Top row, center) Representing Fall River EMS, Director Bob Turgeon listens to some of the ideas presented from the perspective of an emergency responder. (Top row, right) Ms. Lagasse points out some of the data that has been assembled over the past several weeks. (Middle row, left) Ms. Lagasse clarifies a report with Max Florin who is helping to assemble data and suggest evaluation strategies. (Middle row, right) Mr. Florin listens as Dan Mahoney of Project Assert at St. Anne's Hospital makes a point. (Bottom row) Sarah Parmenter, Community Health Specialist of Healthcare of Southeastern Massachusetts (HCSM), records recommendations for the final strategic plan as Ms. Lagasse and Stephanie Patton, also of HCSM, listen. |
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