File #: 23-5053    Version: 1 Name: PROPOSED RESOLUTION FOR TREATMENT NOT TRAUMA
Type: Resolution Status: Approved
File created: 9/21/2023 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 9/21/2023 Final action: 10/19/2023
Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION PROPOSED RESOLUTION FOR TREATMENT NOT TRAUMA WHEREAS, according to Websters Dictionary trauma can be the result of serious bodily injury or an abnormal psychological or behavioral response resulting from severe mental or emotional stress; and WHEREAS, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention maintain that the leading cause of injury related death in the United States is by drug overdose. The majority of overdose deaths involve opioids. Deaths involving synthetic opioids such as illicitly manufactured fentanyl and stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine, have increased in recent years. In addition, overdose deaths accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic; and WHEREAS, more than one million people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose. In 2021, 106,699 involved drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States. Prescription and illegal opioids are the main driver of drug overdose deaths. Nearly 88% of opioid-involved overdose deaths involved...
Sponsors: DENNIS DEER, SCOTT R. BRITTON, JOSINA MORITA, KEVIN B. MORRISON, ANTHONY J. QUEZADA, TARA S. STAMPS, MAGGIE TREVOR, BILL LOWRY, FRANK J. AGUILAR, ALMA E. ANAYA, JOHN P. DALEY, BRIDGET DEGNEN, BRIDGET GAINER, MONICA GORDON, DONNA MILLER, STANLEY MOORE, SEAN M. MORRISON
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PROPOSED RESOLUTION

PROPOSED RESOLUTION FOR TREATMENT NOT TRAUMA

WHEREAS, according to Websters Dictionary trauma can be the result of serious bodily injury or an abnormal psychological or behavioral response resulting from severe mental or emotional stress; and

WHEREAS, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention maintain that the leading cause of injury related death in the United States is by drug overdose. The majority of overdose deaths involve opioids. Deaths involving synthetic opioids such as illicitly manufactured fentanyl and stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine, have increased in recent years. In addition, overdose deaths accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic; and

WHEREAS, more than one million people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose. In 2021, 106,699 involved drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States. Prescription and illegal opioids are the main driver of drug overdose deaths. Nearly 88% of opioid-involved overdose deaths involved synthetic opioids. Opioids were involved in 80,411 overdose deaths in 2021 which is 75.4% of all drug overdose deaths; and

WHEREAS there has been an increase in behavioral health and substance abuse deaths in Cook County; and

WHEREAS, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office has confirmed 2,000 opioid overdose deaths for 2022, breaking the previous record of 1,935 set in 2021; and

WHEREAS, there were 103 overdose deaths attributed to fentanyl in Cook County in 2015. In 2020 that number increased to 1,533 and in 2022 a record 1,825 deaths were recorded, according to statistics from the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office; and

WHEREAS, Fentanyl alone accounted for more than 90% of all opioid-related deaths in Cook County; and

WHEREAS, The American Journal of Public Health state that incarceration is one of the primary risk factors for opioid overdose, and within the first two weeks after release, opioid overdose is 40 times higher for those who are incarcerated compare...

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