Engagement in a National Naloxone Programme among people who inject drugs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Availability of the opioid antagonist naloxone for lay administration has grown substantially since first proposed in 1996. Gaps remain, though, in our understanding of how people who inject drugs (PWID) engage with naloxone programmes over time.

Aims

This paper aimed to address three specific evidence gaps: the extent of naloxone supply to PWID; supply-source (community or prisons); and the carriage of naloxone among PWID.

Materials and methods

Analysis of Scotland's Needle Exchange Surveillance Initiative (NESI) responses in 2011-2012 and 2013-2014 was undertaken with a specific focus on the extent of Scotland's naloxone supply to PWID; including by source (community or prisons); and on the carriage of naloxone. Differences in responses between the two su

SUBMITTER: McAuley A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5854250 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature