Journal
JOURNAL OF URBAN HEALTH-BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
Volume 96, Issue 1, Pages 6-11Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11524-018-0250-x
Keywords
Fentanyl; Naloxone; Opioid overdose; People who use drugs; Community-based response
Funding
- NIDA NIH HHS [UG1 DA015815, K24 DA042720] Funding Source: Medline
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This report documents a successful intervention by a community-based naloxone distribution program in San Francisco. The program and its partner organizations, working with participants who use drugs, first identified the appearance of illicitly made fentanyl and increased outreach and naloxone distribution. Distribution of naloxone and reported use of naloxone to reverse opioid-involved overdoses increased significantly while the number of opioid-involved and fentanyl-involved overdose deaths did not. Community-based programs that provide training and naloxone to people who use drugs can serve as an early warning system for overdose risk and adaptively respond to the rapidly changing overdose risk environment.
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