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Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution Within Syringe Service Programs — United States, 2019

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020
Syringe service programs (SSPs), which provide access to sterile syringes and other injection equipment and their safe disposal after use,* represent a highly successful human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention intervention. SSPs are associated with
B. Lambdin, R. Bluthenthal, L. Wenger, E. Wheeler, Bryan R. Garner, P. Lakosky, A. Kral   +6 more
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Opiate users' knowledge about overdose prevention and naloxone in New York City: a focus group study

Harm Reduction Journal, 2006
Background Drug-induced and drug-related deaths have been increasing for the past decade throughout the US. In NYC, drug overdose accounts for nearly 900 deaths per year, a figure that exceeds the number of deaths each year from homicide.
Galea Sandro, Markham Piper Tinka, Worthington Nancy, Rosenthal David   +3 more
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Reducing drug related deaths : a pre-implementation assessment of knowledge,barriers and enablers for naloxone distribution through general practice [PDF]

, 2014
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A McAuley, A McAuley, A Rome, A Williamson, Andrew McAuley, C Lloyd, C Matheson, C Matheson, Catriona Matheson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Christiane Pflanz-Sinclair, Coffin, Drugs of Dependence, Elinor Dickie, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) 2010, G Hamid, J Hoolachan, J Strang, J Strang, L Copeland, Lorna Aucott, National Treatment Agency, Philip Wilson, PJ Edwards, Richard Watson, S Mayet, Stephen Malloy   +26 more
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Method for Successfully Inducting Individuals Who Use Illicit Fentanyl Onto Buprenorphine/Naloxone.

American Journal on Addictions, 2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Individuals exposed to fentanyl are at risk of precipitated withdrawal using typical buprenorphine/naloxone induction procedures.
Denis G. Antoine, A. Huhn, E. Strain, Gavin Turner, Jasmyne Jardot, A. Hammond, K. Dunn   +6 more
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Association Between State Laws Facilitating Pharmacy Distribution of Naloxone and Risk of Fatal Overdose.

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2019
Importance Given high rates of opioid-related fatal overdoses, improving naloxone access has become a priority. States have implemented different types of naloxone access laws (NALs) and there is controversy over which of these policies, if any, can curb
Rahi Abouk, R. Pacula, David Powell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Systems analysis and improvement approach to improve naloxone distribution within syringe service programs: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

Implementation Science, 2023
Background More than half a million Americans died of an opioid-related overdose between 1999 and 2020, the majority occurring between 2015 and 2020. The opioid overdose mortality epidemic disproportionately impacts Black, Indigenous, and people of color
Christopher F. Akiba, Sheila V. Patel, Lynn D. Wenger, Antonio Morgan-Lopez, Gary A. Zarkin, Stephen Orme, Peter J. Davidson, Alex H. Kral, Barrot H. Lambdin   +8 more
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Emergency department-initiated buprenorphine/naloxone treatment for opioid dependence: a randomized clinical trial.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2015
IMPORTANCE Opioid-dependent patients often use the emergency department (ED) for medical care. OBJECTIVE To test the efficacy of 3 interventions for opioid dependence: (1) screening and referral to treatment (referral); (2) screening, brief ...
G. D'Onofrio, P. O'Connor, M. Pantalon, M. Chawarski, S. Busch, P. Owens, S. Bernstein, D. Fiellin   +7 more
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Protocol for the Optimizing Naloxone Dispensing in Pharmacies (ONDP) Online Continuing Education Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Pharmacy, 2022
The number of opioid-related deaths in Canada has steadily increased since 2016 and the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened this trend. Naloxone has been pivotal for reducing opioid-related harms and death, and pharmacists play a crucial role in ensuring the ...
Ashley Cid, Alec Patten, Michael Beazely, Kelly Grindrod, Jennifer Yessis, Feng Chang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the impact of a national naloxone programme on ambulance attendance at overdose incidents: a controlled time-series analysis [PDF]

, 2017
Background and Aims: It has been suggested that distributing naloxone to people who inject drugs (PWID) will lead to fewer attendances by emergency medical services at opioid-related overdose incidents if peer administration of naloxone was perceived ...
Ashworth, Becketti, Bennett, Bird, Box, Clark, Craig, Darke, Darke, Davoli, Jarosz, Knowlton, Lankenau, Lenton, Longo, McAuley, McAuley, McCain, Merchant, Merrall, Moore, Salmon, Seal, Shermann, Sporer, Strang, Walley, Weatherburn, World Health Organization (WHO), Wright   +29 more
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If we build it, will they come? Perspectives on pharmacy-based naloxone among family and friends of people who use opioids: a mixed methods study

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Expanding access to the opioid antagonist naloxone to reduce overdose mortality is a public health priority in the United States. Naloxone standing orders (NSOs) have been established in many states to increase naloxone dispensing at ...
Susannah Slocum, Jenny E. Ozga, Rebecca Joyce, Alexander Y. Walley, Robin A. Pollini   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source