The Action Plan

 



Rhode Island’s Action Plan is our roadmap to save lives

The Governor’s Overdose Task Force has a plan:

    …to end the overdose crisis
    …to ensure racial equity across all our work
    …to change lives and uplift community voices
    …to use data to drive change
    …to build connections to care

These goals will be used in all our overdose prevention efforts across the state. The Action Plan addresses the root causes of overdose. This includes the social and economic factors that influence health and the ability for communities around our state to thrive.

Learn more about The Task Force

Our main goal is to reduce the number of overdose deaths

We need this plan because fatal overdoses in Rhode Island are higher than ever before. Our goal is to reduce overdose deaths by 30% by 2030. We also want to reduce deaths by 12% by 2025.

 

Our plan focuses on four pillars

These pillars represent the areas the plan will focus statewide efforts to prevent overdose. Click each section to learn more:

Prevention


We can reduce the risk of overdose by supporting people as early as possible. This is important because many factors increase the risk of developing substance use disorder. Some include genetic, situational, and societal factors. Prevention efforts happen in places like schools, workplaces, and high-risk communities. These include services that consider trauma, safer ways to prescribe drugs, and workplace safety.

Prescribing Data Prevention Resources for Loved Ones

Rescue & Harm Reduction


Rescue and Harm Reduction focuses on using tools to help people be safer when using drugs. These include things like naloxone, fentanyl test strips, and new needles. Our goal is to ensure people who use drugs have access to resources to stay safer.

Harm Reduction Data Naloxone Data

Treatment


Anyone who is interested in treatment can get help. We plan to improve treatment access by removing barriers. This also means promoting treatment and retaining people in these programs.

Treatment Data

Recovery


We know that recovery from substance use disorder is possible for everyone. We plan to build recovery capital. This means promoting personal, family, community, and cultural support for people seeking recovery. We also want to train more Peer Recovery Specialists. These are people in recovery with lived experience who want to support others starting their own recovery journey.

Recovery Resources

 


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Track our Action Plan

Follow our progress towards ending the overdose crisis in Rhode Island. You can also see more data about each pillar.

Track Our Action Plan See More Data

Get Involved

Join the monthly Governor’s Task Force Meetings to learn about statewide efforts. You can also view past presentations.

The Task Force Task Force Archive