Pharmacy Naloxone Standing Order and Community Opioid Fatality Rates Over Time.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite the proliferation of pharmacy standing-order naloxone dispensing across many US states before the change to over-the-counter status, few policy analyses have evaluated the implementation of pharmacy naloxone standing orders in addressing opioid overdose fatality among communities.

Objective

To determine whether the implementation of pharmacy standing-order naloxone was associated with lower opioid fatality rates compared with communities without pharmacies with standing-order naloxone.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective multisite study was conducted with an interrupted time series analysis across 351 municipalities in Massachusetts over 24 quarters (from January 1, 2013, through December 31, 2018). Standing-order naloxone dispensin

SUBMITTER: Xuan Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11362859 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature