OORP provides support services to individuals reversed from opioid overdoses and treated at hospital emergency departments. The OORP utilizes specially trained peers to engage reversed individuals, provide recovery supports, non-clinical assistance, and appropriate referrals for assessment and treatment. When an individual has been reversed from an overdose, recovery specialists are notified and deployed within one hour. OORP workers, many of whom are in recovery themselves, follow-up with these individuals for at least eight weeks. In most instances services are provided 24 hours a day by part-time OORP workers in all 21 counties.
