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Posted 4/26/2022 (updated 3/27/2024)
Background: The US overdose crisis is driven by fentanyl, heroin, and prescription opioids. One evidence-based policy response has been to broaden naloxone distribution, but how much naloxone a community would need to reduce the incidence of fatal overdose is unclear. We aimed to estimate state-level US naloxone need in 2017 across three main naloxone access points (community-based programmes, provider prescription, and pharmacy-initiated distribution) and by dominant opioid epidemic type (fentanyl, heroin, and prescription opioid).
Posted 1/24/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)
Get Naloxone Now is an online resource to train people to respond effectively to an opioid overdose emergency.
Posted 1/20/2021 (updated 4/4/2024)
… (PWUD) in the U.S. experience disproportionate adverse health outcomes and mortality as compared with the population … 2016; Reisinger, Pratt, Shoenborn, & Druss, 2017). Similar health outcomes have been reported elsewhere, for example in … are intensified by the overdose pandemic, epidemic rates of HIV, hepatitis A and C, skin and soft tissue infections …
Posted 10/19/2023 (updated 4/11/2024)
Implementation IV grantees with tools and strategies