Federal Officials Visit Baltimore To Announce New Overdose Prevention Strategy

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and different national officials connected Wednesday visited Baltimore to denote a caller national overdose prevention strategy.

The strategy is designed to summation entree to attraction and services for those who usage substances that origin overdoses by focusing connected the divers attraction options for substance usage disorder.

Becerra made the announcement alongside Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh and Mayor Brandon Scott astatine Health Care for the Homeless successful Baltimore.

“With this caller strategy, we’re breaking caller crushed to code the afloat scope of cause usage and addiction that tin effect successful overdose and death,” said Secretary Becerra. “We’re changing the mode we code overdoses. Our caller strategy focuses connected radical — putting the precise individuals who person struggled with addiction successful positions of power.”

The HHS said the American Rescue Plan appropriated implicit $2 cardinal to the section to grow entree to services that would enactment the implementation of the strategy.

There are 4 cardinal precedence areas of the strategy.

Primary prevention: Preventing substance usage to trim the fig of overdoses
Harm reduction: Providing services that supply wellness and wellness to people, careless of whether they usage drugs
Evidence-Based Treatment: Specialty attraction availablity to those who make substance maltreatment disorder
Recovery Support: Bolstering the range of resources that alteration idiosyncratic to beryllium successful recovery

Becerra says helium hopes the programme shows the Biden Administration isn’t naive astir the cause occupation successful the state and that it is superior astir tackling the overdose crisis.

Read the afloat strategy here:

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