Congratulations to our former OP&R ​Director Sherry Adams, former Lead Epidemiologist Jennifer Stanley and Epidemiology Field Assignee​ Jessica Acharya for the long awaited online publication of the article, “The Surveillance of Nonfatal and Fatal Drug Overdoses: Best Practices, Innovations, and Lessons Learned.” It includes a guest editorial on opioid overdose surveillance and 11 articles that highlight the importance of timely, comprehensive local data to inform real-time public health responses to address the opioid overdose epidemic. 


Check out the article here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00333549211046110.


Getting this published has been a long road for all involved. Congratulations on your publication​​!