The Center for Health and Human Services

Office of Prevention Science and Recovery

The MTSU Office of Prevention Science and Recovery (OPSR) utilizes data driven, evidence-based research to address the opioid epidemic in Rutherford County and serves as a resource to other Tennessee counties.

Funded through opioid settlement dollars, OPSR seeks to facilitate local stakeholder engagement to maximize settlement resources and serve as administrator of multiple county and state opioid settlement grant administration processes as well as provides technical support for prospective grantees and projects, programs, and research funded by local and state opioid abatement funds. OPSR leverages the large-scale grant management expertise and experience of the MTSU Center for Health and Human Services (CHHS) and the solution focused data analytics experience of the MTSU Data Science Institute (DSI).

Our Mission

The MTSU Office of Prevention Science and Recovery facilitates data driven, evidence-based projects in the areas of opioid and substance use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery that restore hope and build resilience throughout Tennessee.

Our Goals

Goal: To promote the health and well-being of Rutherford County by addressing the opioid epidemic through dissemination of funding that supports data-driven and evidence-based research, programs, and projects that address opioid and substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery.

Learn more about our work in Rutherford County HERE.

Goal: To serve as a resource to other Tennessee counties through collaboration and sharing of best practices with other researchers, clinicians, public health practitioners, data scientists, and community stakeholders.

Learn more about our work assisting other counties HERE.

Goal: To identify opportunities to collaborate with external community partners on grant applications with MTSU OPSR as applicant for state and federal OUD/SUD funding.

Learn more about our work partnering with community organizations HERE.

Goal: To advance and support interdisciplinary scholarly and research activity specific to opioid and substance use disorder.

Learn more about our work collecting local stigma data HERE.

Goal: To develop and strengthen partnerships within the university, the community, the state, and the nation who have vested interest in healthy living, specific to opioid and substance use disorder.

Goal: To serve as a resource to the MTSU community on projects and initiatives related to opioid and substance use disorder.

Learn more about our work on the MTSU campus HERE.