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Overdose Action Team

In January 2017, community organizations, government agencies and individuals from southeastern CT began regular monthly meetings focused on coordinating efforts and interventions in response to the overdose epidemic. This group serves as the Overdose Action Team.

Our Services

Our Work

Through asset mapping, stakeholder interviews, and collaborative brainstorming, the Overdose Action Team has identified the need for systemic improvements in many policies and practices that intersect and impact the current overdose epidemic.

Substance Use Disorder

Substance use disorder is a treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among a person’s brain system, genetics, environment, and life experiences.

Coordinated Access

One of the most important actions we as a community can take is to connect people with substance use disorder to appropriate and on-demand treatment.

Naloxone Saturation

There is great opportunity to prevent deaths by ensuring that our community is saturated with naloxone kits. The Overdose Action Team works with residents and business owners to assure wide availability of naloxone.

Stigma Reduction

Supporting people living with substance use disorder and their families in the best way possible requires that as a community we reduce the stigma associated with substance use disorder (and co-occurring mental health disorders).

The Numbers

A brief overview of the data surrounding the drug epidemic in New London county. 

"Patients don't fail treatment; Treatment fails patients."

- Annonymous

Ready to find out more?

Ledge Light Health District (LLHD) is the local health department for East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Lyme, New London, North Stonington, Old Lyme, Stonington, and Waterford, Connecticut. Follow the link below for more information on other health intiatives through LLHD. 

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