Data Dashboard
Welcome to the Tennessee Drug Overdose Dashboard The dashboards and data available through this application are the result of ongoing collaboration between the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH), Office of Informatics and Analytics and the Department of Finance & Administration, Division of Strategic Technology Solutions (STS). This interactive tool contains state, regional, and county level data on fatal overdoses, nonfatal overdoses and drug prescribing. http://tn.gov/hea
Graphic Film, Discussion Aim to Open Conversation Between Parents, Teens About Opioid Abuse
Around 120 people, most of them parents of school-age children, listened somberly as the mother in the film relayed how her teenage daughter died of an overdose upstairs while she was downstairs cooking dinner. They cringed when a woman said she was so narrowly focused on getting high, she hadn't cared that an infected wound in her leg, caused by shooting up, had maggots in it, and didn't hesitate to mix toilet water from a public restroom with drugs and inject it. They gaspe
TDMHSAS to Receive New Opioid Addiction Treatment Funding
NASHVILLE—The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (TDMHSAS) will receive six million dollars in federal funding to provide medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction to people who otherwise might not have access to it. Treatment supported by the funding will be targeted to the uninsured or underinsured, particularly veterans or military members and women of childbearing age. In all, the funding will provide medication-assisted treatment for 660 p
Maryville Football Hears Reality of Drug Overdose from Former Player
Chris Murden of True Purpose Ministers puts a drug addiction awareness sticker on Maryville football players' helments Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. Cody McCoy, a former Maryville football player who graduated in 2009, spoke to the team about his brother Dane's death from drug overdose in May 2014. Maryville hosts the Red Ribbon Game to promote awareness of drug overdose. http://www.knoxnews.com/picture-gallery/sports/high-school/2017/09/20/maryville-football-hears-reality-of-dr
Maryville Football Honors Former Player with Red Ribbon Game vs. Fulton
Cody McCoy stood in front of Maryville’s football team Wednesday and told them about a former Rebel, his brother Dane, and how he died of a drug overdose. He told them why Friday’s game against Fulton is the Red Ribbon Game. McCoy, a former Maryville football player who graduated in 2009, didn’t want his final memory of his brother to be from a funeral. So McCoy approached Maryville and they created the event. Each of the past two years Maryville has dedicated one game to dru
Tennessee Medical Cannabis Task Force Hears Pushback, Support
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – The long debate about medical marijuana played out again Thursday on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill as skepticism was mixed with passionate support. It came at the first meeting of the task force appointed by the two legislative speakers to look into the issue. Medical Cannabis Task Force Chair Rep. Jeremy Faison minced no words in addressing law enforcement officials who have long been against legalizing marijuana for medical purposes. “Whether you are re
Prescription Pills in your Car? Thieves May be Looking for Them
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- According to a recent police report, a car break-in downtown left one owner without his prescription medicine. Pharmacist and Medicine Shoppe owner Lisa Lawson says situations like this are common. "Any type of valuable in the car, they're going to steal it, and so prescription drugs right now are a valuable commodity," Lawson said. Police said the driving factor to steal the drugs, is more drugs. "People are out to find anything that they can use t
CVS Health Fighting National Opioid Abuse Epidemic with Enterprise Initiatives
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) — CVS Health announced today that, as part of the company’s broad commitment to fighting the national opioid abuse epidemic, it is enhancing its enterprise-wide initiatives supporting safe drug disposal, utilization management of pain medications and funding for treatment and recovery programs. “As America’s front door to health care with a presence in nearly 10,000 communities across the country, we see firsthand the impact of the alarming and rapidly g
East Tenn. School says Father can't Administer Hemp Oil to Son on School Grounds
James Griebe's son suffers involuntary twitching from a disorder called Tardive Dyskenisia. "It kills me to see him like this," he said. But he uses hemp oil to control it. "And it has absolutely almost corrected that," Griebe said, adding that small doses given three times a day allow his son to focus, especially at school. But his son's school district is barring him from taking the oil to class. "It makes me cry," Griebe said. "It's sad to see a kid twitch like that and no