Addressing the Opioid Crisis: Community Partnerships in Primary Care.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

New Mexico is currently ranked 17th in the United States for drug overdose death rates. Our project seeks to decrease opioid overdose deaths in a community by increasing the number of patients with naloxone in a local family medicine residency clinic.

Methods

We developed a protocol wherein providers asked patients at risk of opioid overdose about naloxone access. Free naloxone was distributed in partner with the county health department, accompanied by teaching of use. We reviewed patient encounters during a 45-day control and study period to measure naloxone possession among patients at risk.

Results

Nearly two-thirds of patients at risk of opioid overdose had no naloxone. A standardized protocol implemented to distribute an opioid reversal agent double

SUBMITTER: Weinand J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7205132 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature