Lessons learned from ramping up a Canadian Take Home Naloxone programme during a public health emergency: a mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study describes the 2016 expansion of the British Columbia Take Home Naloxone (BCTHN) programme quantitatively and explores the challenges, facilitators and successes during the ramp up from the perspectives of programme stakeholders.

Design

Mixed-methods study.

Setting

The BCTHN programme was implemented in 2012 to reduce opioid overdose deaths by providing naloxone kits and overdose recognition and response training in BC, Canada. An increase in the number of overdose deaths in 2016 in BC led to the declaration of a public health emergency and a rapid ramp up of naloxone kit production and distribution. BCTHN distributes naloxone to the five regional health authorities of BC.

Participants

Focus groups and key informant interviews were conducte

SUBMITTER: Young S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6830612 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature