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Identifying risks and responding to overdose: piloting of an overdose prevention programme

Journal of Substance Use, 2002
This paper reports the development and piloting of an Overdose Prevention Programme (OPP) targeted at educating drug users themselves and based on a multi-agency approach utilizing the expertise of specialist agencies and services. In the initial phase of the study, indepth, semi-structured interviews were carried out with a small number of drug users ...
Jane A. Ward   +3 more
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Pharmacy On-Site Overdose Protocols and Prevention of Overdose

Substance Abuse, 2022
Background Opioid overdose is a preventable injury leading to high morbidity and premature mortality in communities across the United States. Overdoses take place where people use drugs, including commercial and public locations like community pharmacies, and necessitate swift detection and response to avoid ...
Traci C. Green   +9 more
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Peer Support and Overdose Prevention Responses: A Systematic ‘State-of-the-Art’ Review [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Overdose prevention for people who use illicit drugs is essential during the current overdose crisis. Peer support is a process whereby individuals with lived or living experience of a particular phenomenon provide support to others by explicitly drawing
Joanna Miler   +2 more
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The implementation of overdose prevention sites as a novel and nimble response during an illegal drug overdose public health emergency [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Drug Policy, 2019
BACKGROUND: Drug-related overdoses were declared a public health emergency in British Columbia, Canada in April, 2016 facilitating the scale-up of responses including rapid sanctioning and implementation of overdose prevention sites (OPSs).
Bernie Pauly   +2 more
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Overdose prevention sites

2022
Non-elite members of the drug policy network in Philadelphia have been essential to centering harm reduction interventions on the city's policy solution agenda by using grassroots tactics including cooperation, convergence, disobedience, and display - the four main tenets of international harm reduction mobility.
Katelyn Victoria Baron   +1 more
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Preventing Hepatotoxicity in Acetaminophen Overdose

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1979
Any drug can be "abused." Overdosage-taking too much of a drug at one time may cause serious injury or death to the patient. Acetaminophen, the main ingredient in many popular over-thecounter analgesics, is no exception. When taken in a large, single overdose, (about 10 Gm.
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Narratives of prevention and redemption in opioid overdose obituaries

Medical Humanities, 2022
Obituaries of people who died from an opioid overdose represent a new territory for understanding cultural narratives of the US opioid epidemic. Drawing on textual analysis of 30 opioid overdose obituaries published on Legacy.com between 2015 and 2020, we describe a prototypical narrative conveyed through opioid overdose obituaries, which renders ...
Elizabeth Troutman Adams   +1 more
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