The opioid epidemic, now a nationwide public health emergency, does not discriminate the individuals and communities that it impacts. Genesee County is no exception. According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Genesee County ranks third behind Wayne and Macomb counties in the number of opioid overdose deaths in 2019 at 138, down from 184 in 2018. In 2019, 70,630 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States, where opioids were involved in over 49,860, or 70.6% of all drug overdose deaths.
Under the direction of the Mental Health & Substance Use Task Force, the Community-Wide Opioid Strategy seeks to engage children, seniors, and our community’s residents most impacted by the opioid crisis through a collaborative, multi-sector effort to build and strengthens current workforce capacity, utilize upstream prevention strategies, and create an innovative, integrated model that coordinates care, services, and community resources to improve the treatment for and prevention of opioid misuse.
The Know More About Addiction: Genesee County Substance Use Prevention Project was developed as an extension of the Know More About Opioid Addiction project in response to observed increases in the use of alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine among Genesee County residents.
The Know More About Addiction project builds upon previously established multi-sector collaborative efforts and provides awareness, education, and resources for Genesee County residents and providers around alcohol, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, opioids, and other emerging drug trends.
According to MDHHS Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS)
