Abstract Background and Aims Fatal outcome of opioid overdose, once detected, is
preventable through timely administration of the antidote naloxone. Take‐home naloxone …

Opioid-related mortality is a growing problem in the United States, and in 2015 there were
over 33,000 opioid-related deaths. To combat this mortality trend, naloxone is increasingly …

Background As physicians have increased opioid prescribing, overdose deaths from
pharmaceutical opioids have substantially increased in the United States. Naloxone …

Community-based overdose prevention programs first emerged in the 1990's and are now
the leading public health intervention for overdose. Key elements of these programs are …

Background Illicit use of high-potency synthetic opioids has become a global issue over the
past decade. This misuse is particularly pronounced in British Columbia, Canada, where a …

Abstract Background North America is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic and it is
commonly suggested that exposure to fentanyl is unknown. Using a provincial survey of …

Background Naloxone-based interventions as part of health systems can reverse an opioid
overdose. Previous systematic reviews have identified the effectiveness of naloxone; …

We examined the acceptability, feasibility, and implementation of the Tenant Overdose
Response Organizers program (TORO)—a tenant-led naloxone training and distribution …

Abstract Background The province of British Columbia (BC), Canada is amid dual public
health emergencies in which the overdose epidemic declared in 2016 has been …

Objectives A growing body of research points to increasing peer involvement in programs for
people who use drugs, although this work has focused primarily on naloxone education and …