Feasibility and Acceptability of Restroom Motion Sensors for Detecting Overdoses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most US drug use events that lead to a fatal overdose are unwitnessed. Given the scale of the overdose crisis, interventions to help detect and respond to overdoses in community settings are urgently needed. Overdose detection technologies (ODT), including reverse-motion restroom sensors, are a promising set of interventions that are underutilized. This study explored the perspectives of frontline harm reduction workers, clinicians, housing shelter staff, and their clients on restroom sensors.

Methods

Staff and program client focus groups conducted between December 2022 and January 2024 discussed prior experiences of responding to overdoses and existing organizational overdose policies and procedures. A verbal and visual description of restroom sensors was given a

SUBMITTER: Park JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12859746 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature