Michigan Opioid Initiative

Sep 02, 2016

Michigan is among thirteen other states to receive funding as part of the Data-Driven Prevention Initiative. Over the course of three years, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services will be receiving $2.25 million to address the growing opioid epidemic that is occurring across the state. The money will be used to develop a preventative plan for combatting abuse and overdose.

More specifically, the DDPI funding will further Michigan’s efforts to:

improve data collection and analysis around opioid misuse, abuse and overdose;
develop a strategy to combat the epidemic; and,
work with communities to develop larger, more comprehensive opioid overdose prevention programs.

The initiative will hopefully play a role in diminishing the total of unintentional fatal drug poisoning, a number that saw a four-fold increase from 1999 to 2014.

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