The Michigan Opioid Settlement and Overdose Data to Action (MOSODA) Program

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) established the MOSODA (Michigan Opioid Settlement and Overdose Data to Action) program to strengthen the state’s response to the opioid crisis. The program combines resources from two key funding streams:

• MODA (Michigan Overdose Data to Action): A CDC-funded initiative focused on improving overdose surveillance, prevention, and response strategies.

• Opioid Settlement Funds: Dollars allocated to Michigan from national opioid settlements, designated to support prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction efforts across the state.

Michigan Department Health and Human Services (MDHHS) opioid resources: Michigan has support for those individuals or friends and family members who may be at high-risk for an opioid overdose. You can have naloxone mailed to you at no cost by visiting https://nextdistro.org/michigan.

MDHHS Naloxone request form for organizations: This naloxone request form is available to organizations that already distribute naloxone. This form is meant to provide additional naloxone capacity and is not meant to replace naloxone already being received from other sources.

Michigan has a network of syringe services programs (SSPs) which provide a range of services, including:

• HIV and Hepatitis C testing and linkage to care
• Training in overdose prevention and response with access to naloxone (Narcan)
• Hepatitis A and B vaccines
• Recovery coaching and linkage to substance use disorder treatment
• Assistance in accessing medical care
• Basic wound care that reduces emergency room visits and hospitalizations from untreated minor injuries
• Access to safer sex education and supplies

Find a Syringe Service Program near you

How to safely dispose of unwanted medications:

• Drug Disposal Map and Resources through Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (OPEN)
• Drug Take Back Map through Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE)

Michigan Mental Health Crisis and Access Line

Mental Health Resource List

Never Use Alone or call 800-484-3731 for help. Never Use Alone is the US National Overdose Response line that people can call when they’re using by themselves, with no one to call for help. One of the volunteer operators will take location information, and alert emergency medical services to that location if someone stops responding after using.

Safe medication storage: tips to help keep your children, guests, and pets safe in your home.

Find food, housing, and other social service assistance near you

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or visit the Lifeline Chat to connect with a trained crisis counselor.

University of Michigan Injury Center and Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (M-OPEN) have resources available to medical professionals related to safer opioid prescribing, post overdose care, opioid prescribing guides and other education regarding opioids.

• Michigan Safer Opioid Prescribing Toolkit
• Post-Overdose Care in the ED Toolkit

Michigan Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (M-OPEN) Prescribing Recommendations and Resources:

• Opioid Prescribing Recommendations: This guide contains opioid prescribing recommendations for different specialties and surgical procedures.
• Acute Care Opioid Prescribing Guide: This guide contains recommendations for opioid prescribing in acute care situations for physicians.
• Education & Resources: This webpage contains information for patients and the community on opioids, pain management, and naloxone.

Michigan Overdose to Action (MODA) community app: The Michigan Overdose to Action (MODA) community app provides a space for those working in treatment, harm reduction and prevention for substance use to network and share information.

The Michigan Overdose Data to Action (MODA) Program brings surveillance and prevention efforts together to decrease:

• Drug misuse
• Substance use disorder
• Fatal and non-fatal overdoses
• Drug-related emergency department visits

The program is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Michigan Overdose Data to Action Evaluation Report Year 1

Michigan Overdose Data to Action Dashboard: this dashboard was created to inform members of the public and guide the work of the MODA prevention team and its partners.

Opioid Strategy Progress Metrics Dashboard: this dashboard provides information on Michigan’s four-pillar substance use response framework.

Michigan Substance Use Disorder Data Repository: this repository was developed to provide data for local prevention agencies and coalitions to assist in their programming decisions.

Michigan Environmental Public Health Tracking: this information helps to bridge the gap between environmental hazards and public health. It gathers existing Michigan-specific environmental and health data and provides them in one online location.

System for Opioid Overdose Surveillance: this data tool provides county-level summaries related to opioid overdoses. Authorized public health and public safety users can gain additional information about non-fatal and fatal opioid overdose incidents in near real-time and provides demographic briefs.

Michigan Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey: this is an annual state-level telephone surveys of Michigan residents, aged 18 years and older. The survey provides state-specific, population-based estimates of the prevalence of various behaviors, medical conditions, and preventive health care practices among Michigan adults.

Michigan Injury Indicators Dashboard: The Michigan Injury Indicators Dashboard provides fatal and nonfatal injury data of Michigan residents. This includes data on deaths, hospitalizations and emergency department visits for common injury types.

ACCESS provides public health programs and research opportunities that focus on the needs of Arab Americans locally and nationally. The ACCESS Community Health and Research Center is a fully integrated community health ‘one-stop service’ center that is comprised of medical, public health and research, mental health, and environment programs.

Corewell Health hosts the Downriver Quick Response Team which aims to improve health, install humanity, and inspire hope in the community.

Detroit Health Department’s Behavioral Health Program conducts outreach efforts on the west side of Detroit and distributes naloxone (Narcan) and other testing materials to residents.

Face Addiction Now (FAN) is a hands-on resource that helps close critical gaps in addressing substance use. They offer educational programming, distribute life-saving tools like naloxone (Narcan), and provide connections to recovery services.

Flint Odyssey House provides prevention, early intervention, primary treatment, and family services to families impacted by substance use disorder and mental health crises.

Greater Flint Health Coalition directly connects residents in Genesee County and beyond with critical initiatives that provide safety nets and elevate quality of life. They offer connections to medical care, mental health resources, career training, and other forms of support.

Home of New Vision offers person-centered programs and services to empower and enrich the lives of people affected by addiction. Their quick response team partners with hospitals, law enforcement, and community programs and meets with individuals within 72 hours of an opioid overdose.

Henry Ford Jackson’s Community Health Program monitors peer recovery coaching in Jackson County jail, improves quick response team encounter rates, conducts street outreach, and provides public health vending machines to residents. In addition to their work in the quick response team space, they hired and trained a peer recovery coach to work within the emergency department’s care team.

LIST Psychological specializes in behavioral health care; including mental health, substance use and co-occurring treatment services for adults, children and families.

Michigan Center for Clinical Systems Improvement (MiCCSI) is a non-profit member organization and quality improvement consortium that partners for better care. For MOSODA, MiCCSI created & hosts the Pain & Substance Use training series as well as building out a library of online trainings with their team of experts.

Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) works to improve the Michigan Automated Prescription Systems (MAPS) utilization and connect with other states’ Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs).

Michigan Health Improvement Alliance conducts street outreach, distributes naloxone (Narcan) and other testing materials to residents in Saginaw and Bay City, and conducts recovery coach referrals.

Michigan Overdose Fatality Review teams (OFR) will prevent drug overdose deaths by examining case-specific underlying circumstances involved, actively seeking feedback from those with lived experience, increasing connections between professionals serving individuals and families affected by substance use, and providing data-driven recommendations to stakeholders at the community, state, and national levels.

Michigan Primary Care Association (MPCA) is the voice of 48 member health centers that provide healthcare through over 400 locations across the state and serve one in every 15 Michigan residents. They support Federally Qualified Health Centers throughout the state and provide them with the resources & tools to better support residents of Michigan.

The Overdose Prevention Engagement Network (OPEN) is a diverse team dedicated to improving lives and reducing harms of substance use. By engaging with individuals, communities, and organizations, we share education and resources to strengthen person-centered prevention, treatment, and recovery. OPEN’s MOSODA work includes a variety of activities including emergency department distribution of naloxone, community distribution of naloxone, media campaigns around screening & harm reduction, and creating & supporting a naloxone training course.

State of Michigan’s Harm Reduction and Viral Hepatitis Unit manages a network of Syringe Service Programs (SSPs).  In total there are 36 organizations that manager over 120 SSPs throughout the state, The Harm Reduction Unit develops & supports the State Utilization Program for SSPs to better track, record, and manage data. The Harm Reduction Unit hosts the annual Harm Reduction Summit as well.

University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center (UMIPC) is one of eleven CDC-funded Injury Control Research Centers nationally, that address urgent injury issues with research, education, and outreach. UMIPC creates & facilitates the Safer Prescribing Series as well as managing the Safer Prescribing Toolkit which they created with support from MOSODA.

Urban Alliance forms relationships to help people gain momentum, confidence, strength, and stability. Their Change of Status program helps men learn skills, make changes, and equip them for the future through group and one-on-one sessions.