The Tennessee Department of Health is receiving a $5.4 million grant from the CDC’s Overdose Data to Action program to strengthen the State’s ongoing efforts to address the opioid overdose crisis and reduce opioid-related harms.
The CDC’s program provides funding to jurisdictions for substance use prevention activities and data collection, with a goal of enhancing programs and surveillance efforts to reduce overdose deaths and related harms.
This is the second CDC grant award to TDH. The first, in 2019, supported TDH’s Opioid Response Coordination Office in the creation of the High Impact Area program. The HIA’s mission is to focus on areas of Tennessee with a high burden of overdoses, overdose related deaths, and substance use disorder.
