Nevada ACEs and Overdose Prevention Funding

Key points

The CDC Injury Center prioritizes funding for the prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), overdose, and suicide. This page shows how funds were appropriated in the state of Nevada in FY22.

State of Nevada

ACEs prevention funding - Nevada

ACEs are preventable, potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-17 years). Examples include neglect, experiencing or witnessing violence, or having a family member attempt or die by suicide.

Percentage of U.S. adults reported experiencing at least one ACE in Nevada in 2020*1
  • 69.9%
Percentage of adults reported experiencing four or more ACEs in Nevada in 2020*1
  • 22.1%

*ACE statistics are reported by U.S. adults and include exposure to eight types of ACEs: physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, witnessing intimate partner violence, household substance abuse, household mental illness, parental separation or divorce, and incarcerated household member.

Total ACEs prevention funding in Nevada‎

CDC appropriated $15,000 for ACEs prevention activities in the state of Nevada in FY22.
Youth Risk Behavior Survey
  • $15,000
Keep Reading: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Funding

Examples of how Nevada is working to prevent ACEs

Surveillance activities

The University of Nevada, Reno is adding questions about experiencing ACEs to the Nevada YRBS to provide representative state-wide estimates of ACEs for Nevada public high school students.

Other support for ACEs in Nevada

Beyond the ACEs appropriation, CDC supports several initiatives, research, and partnerships to build state and tribal surveillance infrastructure and enhance ACEs prevention and mitigation.

In Nevada, some of those other initiatives include Overdose Data to Action.

Overdose prevention funding - Nevada

There were 106,699 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2021 (32.4 deaths per 100,000 standard population), a 16% increase from 2020.2

Overdose deaths in Nevada in 20213
  • 949
Overdose deaths per 100,000 people (age adjusted) in Nevada in 20213
  • 29.2

Total overdose prevention funding in Nevada‎

CDC appropriated $6,640,213 for overdose prevention activities in Nevada in FY22.
Overdose Data to Action (OD2A)
  • Nevada State Award: $3,650,821
  • Clark County Local Award: $2,502,392
Public Health and Public Safety
  • Overdose Response Strategy: $74,500*
  • PACT Coalition for Drug Free Communities Community Innovation Award: $50,000
Research
  • University of Nevada, Reno: $362,500

*average award amount

Keep Reading: Overdose Prevention Funding

Examples of how Nevada is working to prevent overdose

Data linkage to inform action

Nevada linked statewide State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System fatal overdose data with available prescription drug monitoring program data. The data linkage project identified missed opportunities for prescribers to intervene prior to an overdose. As a result of their findings, Nevada provided intervention recommendations to the state board of pharmacy.

Non-fatal overdose reporting expansion

Using emergency medical services data, Nevada established a new surveillance case definition for non-fatal opioid overdoses that may have been missed by syndromic surveillance and hospital data. Use of the case definition allows for more enhanced overdose reporting mechanisms in northern Nevada's largest county.

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National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
  1. Swedo EA, Aslam MV, Dahlberg LL, Niolon PH, Simon TR, Guinn AS, Mercy JA. Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences Among U.S. Adults – Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey, 2011-2020. MMWR.
  2. Spencer MR, Miniño AM, Warner M. Drug overdose deaths in the United States, 2001–2021. NCHS Data Brief, no 457. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2022. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc:122556
  3. NVSS – Drug Overdose Deaths