The purpose of a drug overdose fatality review committee is to decrease the incidence of preventable overdose deaths by doing all of the following:

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(A) Promoting cooperation, collaboration, and communication between all groups, professions, agencies, or entities engaged in drug abuse prevention, education, or treatment efforts;

(B) Maintaining a comprehensive database of all overdose deaths that occur in the county or region served by the review committee in order to develop an understanding of the causes and incidence of those deaths;

(C) Recommending and developing plans for implementing local service and program changes and changes to the groups, professions, agencies, or entities that serve local residents that might prevent overdose deaths;

(D) Providing the department of health with aggregate data, trends, and patterns concerning overdose deaths.