Vision Session: Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP): U.S. Strategy on Rx Drug Abuse - Regina LaBelle

1. Regina LaBelle, Chief of Staff
Office of National Drug Control Policy
April 23, 2014
Vision Session
National RX Drug Abuse Summit

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Deathsper100,000population
Motor Vehicle Traffic Poisoning Drug Poisoning (Overdose)
Source: NCHS Data Brief, December, 2011, Updated with 2009 and 2010 mortality data
U.S. Death Rate Trends, 1980-2010

3. Source of Prescription Pain Relievers
Source: SAMHSA, Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2009-2010

4. • Coordinated effort across
the Federal Government
• Four focus areas:
1) Education
2) Prescription Drug
Monitoring Programs
3) Proper Disposal of
Medication
4) Enforcement
Prescription Drug Abuse
Prevention Plan

5. Source: PDMP Training and Technical Assistance Center, Brandeis University, 2013
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs

6. How to Recognize and Respond
to an Opioid Overdose
• The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) has
created a card explaining how to recognize and respond
to an opioid overdose.
• The card, called “Opioid Overdose Resuscitation,” is
available for download on the ASA Web site.
• To download the card, go to: http://www.asahq.org/
WhenSecondsCount/resources

7. • There are signs that efforts to reduce and prevent prescription drug
abuse are working.
o National data show the rate of past-month nonmedical use of prescription
medicines among young adults aged 18 to 25 over the past two years is lower
than the rate from 2003 - 2010.1
• State public health and public safety professionals can take steps to
promote safer prescribing practices; improved prescription monitoring;
safe disposal; and effective monitoring, intervention, treatment and
overdose prevention.
• Long-term success will come from coordination and collaboration at the
Federal, state, local, and tribal levels, particularly among public health and
public safety leaders.
Conclusion
1 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National
Findings. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. [September 2013]. Available: http://www.samhsa.gov/data/NSDUH/
2012SummNatFindDetTables/NationalFindings/NSDUHresults2012.htm

8. For More Information:
WHITEHOUSE.GOV/ONDCP