The purpose of the Garrett County Opioid Intervention Team is to address the opioid and other drug epidemic in order to prevent overdose deaths and halt the spread of the drug epidemic in the community through prevention, enforcement, intervention and treatment/recovery.

The mission of the Garrett County Opioid Intervention Teams is to 1) develop a unified local strategy; 2) conduct operational coordination with all stakeholders; and 3) work cooperatively in conducting holistic intervention and response operations to reduce the number of fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses on an operational and tactical level.