curbthecrisis.comCurb the Crisis
“Together, Let's Curb the crisis.”
Virginia multi-agency opioid information campaign and website (US-VA), curbthecrisis.com, run by the Departments of Health, Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Criminal Justice Services, Health Professions and Social Services after the 2016 opioid public health emergency declaration, covering overdose signs, naloxone, safe disposal, treatment and recovery, with social media and partner toolkits; still online in 2026.
- Years
- 2018–now
- Country
- United States
- Topic
- DrugsHarm reductionOpioids
- Asks people to
- RecognizeSeek helpStart
- Strategy
- Service linkSimple instruction
- Channel
- Social (organic)Website
- Audience
- General public
Evidence
NoneUnknown
No evaluation found.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Commonwealth of Virginia (VDH, DBHDS, DCJS, DHP, DSS) State local government, funder and creator
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- One Pill Can Kill – Virginia 2022–now
- It Only Takes One 2024–now
Sources
Research notes
US-VA. Discovered 2026-10-22 for #17. Unverified (no page found that credits an agency). startYear 2018 is the first Wayback capture of curbthecrisis.com (March 2018); its predecessor was VaAware.com, announced by Gov. McAuliffe in Nov 2016 (WMDT). A search-result snippet (everything-pr.com, page now gone) said the site and a marketing campaign are funded by DBHDS's SAMHSA State Opioid Response grant and that DBHDS sought a media agency; not confirmed on a fetched page. No paid ads or videos found; the site's social feed shows organic posts. Settlement funding: none found. Procurement search 2026-10-22: No award naming the campaign found. DBHDS FFATA subawards found for other campaigns only (Siddall Communications for 988, 2022-2023; VFHY for youth marijuana and fentanyl campaigns, 2021-2023). Site status 2026-10-22: dead (predecessor domain VaAware.com no longer resolves; the inventory earlier found it listed for sale at HugeDomains); Wayback copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20170619101936/http://vaaware.com/. Reuse terms checked 2026-10-23 by an AI research pass for #47; not yet reviewed by a person.
Record cases/va-curb-the-crisis.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign