The Behavioral Health and Addiction Services section works to educate and engage individuals and communities about prevention, harm reduction strategies and treatment options for substance use disorders. These are all key in helping to prevent overdose deaths related to substance use, mental and behavioral health disorders and individuals starting tobacco use, often seen as a gateway drug to other substances.

Mail Order Narcan

Take this quick training to receive free mail order Narcan.
Training

CDC Overdose Data to Action

Obtain high quality, more comprehensive, and timelier data on overdose morbidity and mortality, and use the data to inform prevention and response efforts.
Award Announcement

First Responders

Narcan Administration during COVID-19 Pandemic
Guidance

Community Narcan Trainings

Free Narcan training where participants learn about the different types of opioids, signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose, and how to administer Narcan.
Schedule Training

Recover For Life and Peer Support

Request a peer supporter, read recovery stories and find resources for addiction recovery.
Community Campaign

Overdose Data Reports

Online data system to view reports that provide data on drug overdose treatment, outcomes and prevention in Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio.
Overdose Data Reports

Opiate Prescribers

As a healthcare professional, these helpful resources make sure opioids are being used in an appropriate and effective way with your patients.
Click for more resources

Columbus & Franklin County Addiction Plan

CFCAP is a community action plan designed to decrease overdoses, overdose deaths and infectious diseases like Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS.
To read the plan, click here.

Franklin County CARES

The Franklin County Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Evaluation System (CARES).
CARES Website

Find Treatment

To find a treatment provider in your area, call the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addition Services at 877-275-6364 or visit the link below.
Find treatment in your area.

Medication Disposal

When your medicines are no longer needed, they should be disposed of promptly. Consumers and caregivers should remove expired, unwanted, or unused medicines from their home as quickly as possible to help reduce the chance that others accidentally take or intentionally misuse the unneeded medicine, and to help reduce drugs from entering the environment.

In Franklin County, there are several drug drop boxes. To view locations outside the 270 outerbelt, zoom out on the map by clicking the minus sign in the upper left corner. 

The Knows of How to Dispose

Click on the image above for a PDF version. 

Partnership for Drug-Free Kids Safe Drug Disposal Guide 
Know the Drug Name

Medication Disposal Bags

As part of the Columbus & Franklin County Opiate Addiction Plan, Franklin County Public Health has partnered with the ADAMH Board of Franklin County to distribute safe medication disposal bags. These bags contain a material that, when mixed with water, deactivates the drugs. Bags will be available at community naloxone trainings.

Initiatives

Prescription Drug Overdose Grant

Franklin County Public Health (FCPH) has been awarded the Prescription Drug Overdose grant from the Ohio Department of Health to mitigate the opioid crisis in Franklin County. FCPH works in partnership with the Franklin County Opiate Action Plan, collaborating with community partners in prevention, harm reduction, emergency response, and treatment.  To read more about this grant, click here.

The Columbus & Franklin County Addiction Plan is a community action plan designed to decrease overdoses, overdose deaths and infectious diseases like Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS. To read the plan, click here.

  • In 2017, Franklin County Public Health received a $74,648 grant from Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services to purchase naloxone to provide to local law enforcement, emergency personnel and first responders so they can immediately respond to overdose situations in their community.

Reports

Franklin County Public Health in collaboration with Columbus Public Health and other community partners, have an online data system to view reports that provide data on drug overdose treatment, outcomes and prevention in Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio.

Overdose Data Reports

 

Contact Us

For questions please contact

Theresa Seagraves, Assistant Health Commissioner and Director of Health Systems and Planning

Email: theresaseagraves@franklincountyohio.gov

Phone number: 614-561-8893