This brief published by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) and its partners describes how Ocean County, New Jersey, incorporates ODMAP data into its Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) process.
This publication by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP), along with Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) and ODMAP (Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program), provides a case study on the incorporation of ODMAP Data in the Overdose Fatality Review Process in Ocean County, New Jersey. For the Ocean County Overdose Fatality Review Program (OC-OFRP), the recommendation to use Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program (ODMAP) data started a 2-year journey developing the Overdose Response Plan. It was not until the plan was operational that the OC-OFRP realized it was not using ODMAP to its full potential. In ODMAP, the registered user can search any date to identify the overdose activity at that specific time. Using this feature to search dates provides the opportunity to identify what was happening in the community at the time of specific overdose decedent death. In short, when an overdose fatality review (OFR) identifies an overdose decedent, a team member with ODMAP access can search the date of death to see the fatal overdoses, nonfatal overdoses, naloxone administrations, and municipalities in which this activity was happening. In addition, ODMAP data can be used to inform decedent case selection by looking at high-overdose municipalities or locations. The benefit of utilizing ODMAP data does not just add community context into an OFR; the data can inform other initiatives in jurisdictions to support overdose response activities.