Nursing Resources: Opioid Addiction

Statistics on the crisis, links to reports on prescription medication abuse and heroin abuse, and more.

Many links to useful information, including overdose prevention, prescribing rules for practitioners, opioid prescription monitoring programs and more.

A summary of the opioid addiction problem, latest news, prevention, risk factors, and more.

Addiction facts, government responses, and more.

Links to prescription rate maps, drug overdose death data, heroin and fentanyl data and more.

This link will take you to a list of the latest opioid epidemic research available in the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Database.

Pictures and brief text descriptions of Cincinnati's opioid epidemic.

In this free online course you'll learn about the origins and spread of the opioid epidemic, medical and non-medical use of opioids, the risks and neurological pathways to opioid addiction, the impacts of opioid misuse, effective medical treatments for addiction, how to help prevent overdose deaths, and explore the multiple pathways to recovery.

"(A)n online resource to train people to respond effectively to an opioid-associated overdose emergency."

Is a patient taking more than one kind of painkiller? This tool calculates how many Morphine Dose Equivalents they are really getting.

Links to Washington State executive orders and plans to deal with opioid addiction.

Information about Washington State laws on opioid prescribing.

Links to information on reversing overdoses, improving prescription practices, and more.

Videos and articles on recognizing and treating opioid overdose, and naloxone providers in Washington state. .

This 8 minute training video "covers overdose risks, the WA State Good Samaritan Law and shows a step-by-step demonstration on what to do in an opioid overdose...."