Opioid education and nasal naloxone rescue kits in the emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emergency departments (EDs) may be high-yield venues to address opioid deaths with education on both overdose prevention and appropriate actions in a witnessed overdose. In addition, the ED has the potential to equip patients with nasal naloxone kits as part of this effort. We evaluated the feasibility of an ED-based overdose prevention program and described the overdose risk knowledge, opioid use, overdoses, and overdose responses among participants who received overdose education and naloxone rescue kits (OEN) and participants who received overdose education only (OE).

Methods

Program participants were surveyed by telephone after their ED visit about their substance use, overdose risk knowledge, history of witnessed and personal overdoses, and actions in a wit

SUBMITTER: Dwyer K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4427207 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature