Injection Drug Use Frequency Before and After Take-Home Naloxone Training.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Concerns that take-home naloxone (THN) training may lead to riskier drug use (as a form of overdose risk compensation) remain a substantial barrier to training implementation. However, there was limited good-quality evidence in a systematic review of the association between THN access and subsequent risk compensation behaviors.

Objective

To assess whether THN training is associated with changes in overdose risk behaviors, indexed through injecting frequency, in a cohort of people who inject drugs.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used prospectively collected self-reported behavioral data before and after THN training of participants in The Melbourne Injecting Drug User Cohort Study (SuperMIX). Annual interviews were conducted in and aroun

SUBMITTER: Colledge-Frisby S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10403778 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature