Someone may be overdosing
Call 911. Give naloxone if you have it, stay with the person, and follow the dispatcher’s instructions. Naloxone can reverse an opioid overdose when given in time.
Open CDC response guidance ↗A practical starting point
The next safe step is still a step.
Overdose can bring urgency, fear, grief, anger, and questions that do not fit neatly together. Find a clear path for this moment—whether you are responding, supporting someone, looking for care, or trying to remember.
This site is an orientation point, not a substitute for emergency services, medical care, or local advice.
Right-now routes
Put the urgent thing first.
If there may be immediate danger, call emergency services. These pathways help with the next question after that call—or when the need is urgent but not an emergency.
I need a human voice
For free, confidential treatment referral and information, contact SAMHSA’s National Helpline. For emotional distress or thoughts of suicide, call or text 988.
I want to reduce risk
Find naloxone, harm-reduction supplies, drug-checking information, and peer-led support without waiting for a crisis.
Choose your path
You belong in the resource map.
The overdose conversation includes more people than one label can hold. Start with the role you are carrying today.
I’m responding now
Emergency guidance, naloxone information, and bystander support.
Show response resources →I use drugs
Practical ways to lower risk, find supplies, and stay connected to care.
Show harm-reduction resources →I’m worried about someone
Conversation support, treatment navigation, and ways to keep connection possible.
Show family resources →I’m grieving
Peer support, remembrance, and room for complicated loss.
Show grief resources →I’m organizing
Campaign planning, event safety, accessible gatherings, and shareable tools.
Show organizer resources →I’m a professional
Training, evidence, treatment directories, and language for better care.
Show professional resources →Resource directory
Useful beats impressive.
Search by need, not by jargon. These are external resources from public agencies and established organizations; open each resource to confirm current eligibility and availability.
Reverse an opioid overdose
Plain-language guidance on naloxone, bystander action, access, and Good Samaritan protections.
Open CDC guidance ↗Find a treatment facility
Search the confidential national locator by address, service, and treatment type.
Search FindTreatment.gov ↗National Helpline
Free, confidential treatment referral and information, available 24 hours a day.
Visit SAMHSA’s helpline ↗Find naloxone near you
Start with community distribution programs, pharmacies, and local harm-reduction services.
Learn about naloxone access ↗Naloxone and safer-use supplies
Online and mail-based pathways for naloxone, supplies, education, and peer connection.
Visit NEXT Distro ↗Harm-reduction learning
Training, policy context, and resources centered on practical care and the dignity of people who use drugs.
Visit the coalition ↗Call before using alone
A peer-led overdose response line for people who want another person on the other end of the phone.
Learn about the service ↗Naloxone education and access
Training, public education, and access pathways from an overdose-prevention organization.
Learn about naloxone ↗Grief after a substance-related loss
Peer support and a community for people grieving a death connected to substance use.
Visit GRASP ↗Share a tribute
Submit a remembrance to the International Overdose Awareness Day memorial wall.
Open the tribute wall ↗Campaign resources
Event, workplace, social, poster, and fact-sheet materials from the global observance campaign.
Browse campaign resources ↗Free naloxone and certification
Education, certification, volunteer pathways, and public-awareness programming.
Visit End Overdose ↗Find state and local resources
Use maintained state-agency and treatment locators, then verify local availability before sharing details.
Open the state resource directory →No resources match that search. Try a broader word or choose “All resources.”
Resource note: Availability, eligibility, and laws vary by location. This directory is a signpost, not a guarantee. If a link changes, please tell us so we can review it.
Learn without the lecture
Facts should help someone do something.
We keep the core message simple: overdose is preventable, naloxone saves lives, and people are more than the worst moment in a story.
Naloxone is a response tool.
Naloxone can reverse an opioid overdose when given in time. Carry it, learn how to use it, and tell the people around you where it is.
Source: CDC ↗Safer care is still care.
Harm reduction meets people where they are with practical ways to reduce risk, stay connected, and keep the door open to future choices.
Source: NHRC ↗Recovery is not one doorway.
Treatment, peer support, medication, counseling, safer-use services, and family support can be part of a changing path.
Source: FindTreatment.gov ↗Keep care in motion
Awareness is what we do with what we know.
Learn a response skill. Put naloxone where people can reach it. Share a treatment locator. Make an event safer. Say a person’s name. Choose the action you can sustain.
Our editorial promise
Dignity is a safety feature.
We write for people who use drugs, people who love them, people who respond, people who grieve, and people trying to learn. We link to original public-health and community sources, mark what is time-sensitive, and avoid language that turns a person into a diagnosis.
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Clear about what we know.
Information changes. Laws differ. Services have their own eligibility rules. Open the original source for the current details, and contact local services when a decision cannot wait.