The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the Overdose Prevention Data Channel, a centralized resource that brings fatal and nonfatal overdose data, prevention strategies, and information about CDC programs together in one place.

• Why it’s important: It aims to help communities better understand evolving overdose trends and use data to inform prevention efforts.

The details: The channel draws on three major CDC surveillance systems – the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System, the Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology system, and the National Vital Statistics System.

• Visitors can explore national- and state-level overdose trends, find evidence-based prevention strategies, and connect with CDC programs, tools, and dashboards that support prevention and response.