Drug Overdose Resource Center

Overdose Fatality Reviews (OFRs) in Minnesota (PDF)

Nonfatal Emergency Department Visits for Drug Overdose Among Minnesota Residents 2016-2020 (PDF).
Read the MDH report with data on nonfatal emergency department visits for drug overdose from 2016-2020.

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) Data Brief (PDF)
Statewide and county trends in neonatal abstinence syndrome, 2016-2022

Minnesota Student Survey (MSS)
Information about the Minnesota Student Survey, which asks questions about activities, experience, and behaviors of 8th, 9th, and 11th graders, including alcohol and drug use

Statewide Trends in Drug Overdose: Preliminary 2023 data update (PDF)

This report details 2023 preliminary drug overdose data. 

Comprehensive Drug Overdose Legislative Report 2024 (PDF)

This report will tell the story of collaboration, integration, innovation, and dedication to meet Minnesotans where they are in their recovery journey with efforts to prevent substance use in the first place, support harm reduction for people who use drugs, create spaces that encourage recovery, and provide support for evidence-based programming and community-defined evidence practices.

MDH Naloxone Protocol 
Information about the Naloxone Protocol that pharmacies can adopt in order to dispense naloxone to anyone who is at risk for, or knows someone who is at risk for, an opioid overdose

The Importance of Naloxone in Reversing Opioid Overdose
Video with information about the importance of naloxone and its role in reversing an opioid overdose.

University of Minnesota Naloxone Resource Site
CME/CPE presentation on identifying risks, signs and symptoms of opioid overdoses and understanding the various naloxone formulations. Healthcare providers who watch the video are able to earn CME/CPE credit at no cost.

Statewide Community-based Organizations
As a part of the State Targeted Response (STR) Grants through Department of Human Services (DHS), organizations were awarded funds to provide Naloxone overdose training and kits free of charge. The following community-based organizations provide Naloxone overdose training and kits free of charge:

• Steve Rummler HOPE Network—Call 952-943-3937 or sign up for training from the Steve Rummler HOPE Network.
• Rural AIDS Action Network (RAAN)—Call 320-257-3036.
• Red Door Clinic—Call 612-543-5555.
• Indigenous Peoples Task Force—Call 612-870-1723.
• LSS StreetWorks Collaborative—Call 612-354-3345 or e-mail street.works@lssmn.org.

Minnesota Poison Control 
Established under MN State Statute 145.93, the Minnesota Poison Control System is responsible for providing immediate medical treatment recommendations for poisonings and overdoses to the general public and health care professionals. This service is provided statewide by calling 1-800-222-1222 and is available 24/7 with no direct cost to the user. Opioid overdoses fall within this responsibility. Minnesota Poison Control encourages all Minnesotans (public, law enforcement, EMS, health care professionals) to utilize the Minnesota Poison Control for all overdoses, especially opioid overdoses that required naloxone administration. The Minnesota Poison Control can assist with safe medical management and collection of public health data that will aid efforts to combat the opioid epidemic.

Difficult Conversations: A guide for funeral directors addressing deaths by drug overdose (PDF)

Minnesota Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
Minnesota’s opioid prescribing guidelines provide a framework for safe and thoughtful opioid prescribing for pain management. In partnership with the medical community, the Minnesota Department of Human Services and the Minnesota Department of Health developed the guidelines for clinicians who manage pain in primary care and specialty outpatient settings. The opioid prescribing guidelines were developed by the Opioid Prescribing Workgroup (OPWG).

Flip the Script
Education campaign aimed at health care professionals and developed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to change the narrative around prescription opioid therapy, pain management and prescription opioid misuse.

PMP Registration
PMP Access Request Forms for prescribers, pharmacist, delegates, corners, and coroner delegates

The PEW Charitable Trusts Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Report
Report that outlines eight strategies to maximize the efficacy of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs)

Center for Disease Control Prescribing Opioid for Chronic Pain
CDC Guideline for prescribing opioids for chronic pain

DC Opioid Prescribing Clinical Tools
Clinical tools for prescribing opioids for chronic pain, including a mobile app for calculating MME

Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) Pain Guidelines: Assessment, Non-Opioid Treatment Approaches and Opioid Management
ICSI Guideline for pain management

Minnesota Coroners’ & Medical Examiners’ Association
Information about the MN Coroner’ and Medical Examiners’ Association, including forensic groups and programs, and links to MN Statutes Chapter 390—Coroner, Medical Examiner and Chapter 13.83—Medical Examiner Data

Fast Tracker for Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Searchable online tool for statewide Substance Use Disorder (SUD) services to assist individuals, family members, detox programs, assessors, care coordinators, physicians, and others to quickly access SUD service openings statewide (e.g. choose Addictions, Chemical Dependency, or Detoxification in the “Search for Clinics” section of the website). Substance Use Disorder treatment programs and detoxification programs licensed by DHS must update program openings on a daily basis.

Recovery Community Organizations funded by DHS to provide peer recovery support services for substance use disorder and addiction:

• Minnesota Recovery Connection
• Recovery is Happening

SAMHSA Substance Use Disorder
Facts on common substance use disorders including Opioid Use Disorder

SAMHSA Buprenorphine Treatment Physician Locater
Find physicians authorized to treat opioid dependency with buprenorphine (e.g. suboxone, subutex) by state

Licensing Look Up
Look up licensed providers who specialize in the treatment of substance use disorder that involves injection drug use

AA Meeting Locater
List of AA meetings throughout Minnesota

NA Meeting Locater
A list of NA meetings throughout Minnesota

Safe Harbor/No Wrong Door 
Safe Harbor provides victim-centered, statewide response for sexually exploited youth. No Wrong Door is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multi-state agency approach to ensure communities across Minnesota have the knowledge, skills and resources to effectively identify sexually exploited and at-risk youth. To learn more and access services, visit Regional Navigators, and Protocol Development and Training. If you or someone you know is being sexual exploited or trafficked, please contact your Regional Navigator or contact the Day One Hotline to learn more about services available in your community at 1-866-223-1111.

DSM 5 Criteria for Substance Use Disorder
List of the diagnostic criteria for a Substance Use Disorder

Minnesota Prevention Resource Center (MPRC)
Resource to enhance the capacity of people interesting in preventing problems resulting from alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs

Managing Unwanted Medications: Safe Disposal Drop-Box Locations
Locations for and explanation of safe disposal of prescription medications.

Fentanyl Test Strips to Prevent Drug Overdose - Fact Sheet for Public Health Workers (PDF)
Fact sheet for public health workers on the importance of fentanyl test strips in overdose prevention.

Fentanyl Test Strips to Prevent Drug Overdose - Fact Sheet for People Who Use Drugs (PDF)
Fact sheet for people who use drugs explaining what fentanyl test strips are, how to use them, where to find them, and other overdose prevention strategies.

Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention (PDF)
Information on syringe service programs, safe use, overdose prevention and treatment resources

Harm Reduction Coalition
Information and resources about harm reduction include the eight principles of harm reduction and best practice guidelines for harm reduction

Minnesota Pharmacy Syringe/Needle Access Initiative
Information about and list of all pharmacies participating in syringe access program

MN Syringe Service Program Calendar 
A listing of hours and locations for Syringe Service Programs in MN.

MDH STD/HIV Partner Services Program
Informing sexual partners of positive STD or HIV test results is a sensitive and private way

Minnesota Family Planning & STD Hotline
Provides the entire state of Minnesota with reliable, medically accurate, and confidential information via phone, text and web chat.

MDH Center for Health Equity
Resource Library for Advancing Health Equity in Public Health

CDC Social Determinants of Health
Information about sources of data, programming, policy resources, and tools for addressing social determinants of health