Reducing the opioid crisis or its consequences

Select two policies that have been implemented in your state that are focused on reducing the
opioid crisis or its consequences. These policies can be implemented by the state government,
local governments, or other organizations (e.g., a police agency or a state health authority).
They do not need affect the entire state.
Broadly, you can think about policies as falling into the following categories:

1. Drug treatment

• Trying to get existing opioid users to decrease or stop their use of drugs through
  more treatment or better access to treatment
• There may also be related policies that try to make it easier for people to stop using
  drugs, such as providing more stable housing, employment opportunities, etc.

1. Drug prevention

• Trying to convince people not using opioids to avoid them
• Can be targeted at specific groups (e.g., school kids, at-risk youth), or generally
  raising awareness through advertising and public health promotion campaigns

1. Law enforcement/criminal justice

• Trying to prevent the selling or use of opioids through laws and the enforcement of
  those laws.
• Can include the introduction of new laws, extra policing, information sharing,
  forensic analysis, crackdowns. Policies can be targeted at sellers (at different levels)
  or at buyers.

1. Harm reduction

• Focused on reducing the harmful effects of opioids, rather than the amounts of
  opioids consumed
• Includes policies like improving naloxone access and use, needle and syringe
  programs, fentanyl test strips, protocols where ambulances attend overdose callouts
  but police do not, etc.
  Please focus on policies that help address heroin and fentanyl problems (or opioid problems in
  general), and choose the two policies from different categories (e.g., one related to treatment
  and one related to law enforcement).
  PARTS (Total is out of 40 points, although there are 42 points available)

1. Your name: [1 point]
2. State: [1 point]
   POLICY 1
3. Describe a policy to address opioid problems. What groups or organizations were involved?
   When was it implemented? What was the aim? What funding was involved (if any)? [4
   points]
4. Is the policy response trying to reduce demand, reduce supply, or reduce the costs of opioid
   drug use (either to the individual themselves or to others)? Using the demand and supply
   framework, draw a figure and show what the policy is trying to achieve. (Note: it is possible
   that policies will affect more than one of these. If that is the case, please be very clear on how
   they interact.) [4 points]