A systematic review of community opioid overdose prevention and naloxone distribution programs

AK Clark, CM Wilder, EL Winstanley - Journal of addiction …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Community-based opioid overdose prevention programs (OOPPs) that include the
distribution of naloxone have increased in response to alarmingly high overdose rates in …

What we know, and don't know, about the impact of state policy and systems-level interventions on prescription drug overdose

TM Haegerich, LJ Paulozzi, BJ Manns… - Drug and alcohol …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Drug overdose deaths have been rising since the early 1990s and is the
leading cause of injury death in the United States. Overdose from prescription opioids …

A review of opioid overdose prevention and naloxone prescribing: implications for translating community programming into clinical practice

SR Mueller, AY Walley, SL Calcaterra… - Substance …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Background As physicians have increased opioid prescribing, overdose deaths from
pharmaceutical opioids have substantially increased in the United States. Naloxone …

[HTML][HTML] Take-home naloxone for the emergency interim management of opioid overdose: the public health application of an emergency medicine

J Strang, R McDonald, G Campbell, L Degenhardt… - Drugs, 2019 - Springer
Naloxone is a well-established essential medicine for the treatment of life-threatening
heroin/opioid overdose in emergency medicine. Over two decades, the concept of 'take …

Twenty years of take-home naloxone for the prevention of overdose deaths from heroin and other opioids—conception and maturation

R McDonald, ND Campbell, J Strang - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Opioid overdose is a major cause of mortality, but injury and fatal outcomes can
be prevented by timely administration of the opioid antagonist naloxone. Pre-provision of …

High risk and little knowledge: overdose experiences and knowledge among young adult nonmedical prescription opioid users

D Frank, P Mateu-Gelabert, H Guarino… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Opioid-involved overdoses in the United States have dramatically increased in
the last 15 years, largely due to a rise in prescription opioid (PO) use. Yet few studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding intentionality of fentanyl use and drug overdose risk: findings from a mixed methods study of people who inject drugs in New York City

C McKnight, CA Weng, M Reynoso, S Kimball… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background As the proportion of drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl continues to
increase in the US, monitoring exposure to and possible changes in intention to use fentanyl …

Characteristics of an overdose prevention, response, and naloxone distribution program in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

AS Bennett, A Bell, L Tomedi, EG Hulsey… - Journal of Urban Health, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Prevention Point Pittsburgh (PPP) is a public health advocacy organization that
operates Allegheny County's only needle exchange program. In 2002, PPP implemented an …

US Military veterans and the opioid overdose crisis: a review of risk factors and prevention efforts

AS Bennett, H Guarino, PC Britton… - Annals of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
US military veterans have been heavily impacted by the opioid overdose crisis, with drug
overdose mortality rates increasing by 53% from 2010–2019. Risk for overdose among …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid widespread distribution of intranasal naloxone for overdose prevention

D Madah-Amiri, T Clausen, P Lobmaier - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Take home naloxone programs have been successful internationally in training
bystanders to reverse an opioid overdose with naloxone, an opioid antagonist. A multi-site …