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2018 Population Health Dashboards <br />Orange County, NC <br />4- SUMH18 <br /> <br />Drug Overdose Reversals and Emergency Response <br /> <br />Summary: <br />As part of an effort to reduce overdose deaths, all four Orange County branches of law enforcement carry naloxone, an overdose <br />reversal drug, and have been trained on how to use it in the field. From the start of the Good Samaritan/ Naloxone Access law in <br />2013 through the end of 2017, Orange County has seen (a reported) 34 Community reversals, and 11 law enforcement <br />reversals. However, there is still much work to do. Orange County saw more than 400 ED visits related to Medication/Drug <br />poisoning in 2017. More than a quarter of these were related to either opioids, heroin, or benzodiazepines (25.4%) <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Mechanism of Self-Inflicted Injury-Related NC ED Visits <br />Stratified by Sex, 2012-2015 <br /> <br /> <br />• A greater proportion of women visited the NC ED due <br />to self-inflicted poisonings (69%) than men (53%). <br />• In Orange County, approximately 56% of <br />medication/drug poisoning visits were female, and <br />45% were male. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Poisonings are the most common mechanism of <br />self-inflicted injury-related ED visits in NC (62%). <br /> <br />Medication/Drug visits <br />Opioid overdose visits <br />Heroin overdose visits <br />Benzodiazepine visits <br />Orange County Overdose Related ED Visits, 2017 <br /> 402 <br />49 <br />32 <br />21 <br />Sources: NC DETECT Report on Violent Injuries Treated in North Carolina Emergency <br />Departments, 2012-2015 (2017), and NC DETECT ED Overdose Surveillance Report, <br />Orange County (2017) <br />