Project Lazarus: Community-Based Overdose Prevention in Rural North Carolina

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Describes a community-based overdose prevention model in an Appalachian county of Western North Carolina to combat the high unintentional poisoning mortality rate due to prescription opioids. The main components of this model include community involvement, coalition building, monitoring and surveillance data, overdose prevention, use of medication for reversing overdoses, and the education of primary care providers in managing chronic pain and safe opioid prescribing.

Su Albert, Fred W. Brason, Catherine K. Sanford, et al.

Pain Medicine, 12, (suppl 2), S77-S85

06/2011

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Appalachia · Health workforce education and training · Illicit drug use · Mortality · Prescription drug misuse · Primary care · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · North Carolina