AzPHA 2024 Conference Materials: Addressing Arizona’s Opioid Epidemic

A huge thank you to all those who registered for Thursday’s sold-out 2024 Arizona Public Health Association Conference: Addressing Arizona’s Opioid Crisis. A special thank you to all of our sponsors and exhibitors for making our conference possible!

Overdoses from opioids and especially fentanyl continue to accelerate in Arizona. In fact, fentanyl poisoning is among the top 5 leading causes of death in Arizona. While the trajectory of the epidemic continues to be grim, evidence-based best practices to address the epidemic are advancing at the state, county and local level as well as numerous nonprofits. Funding from the OneArizona settlement is now and will continue to provide critical financial resources to help partners to implement these evidence-based practices now and in the coming years.

Our 2024 Arizona Public Health Association conference on Thursday brings together more than 40 experts and practitioners to share their research, intervention practices and results. Participants and attendees have a one-of-a-kind opportunity to share with each other data, best practices and evaluation techniques that will help them most effectively use settlement funds and best practice policies to assist with mitigating this troubling epidemic.