Accessing Take-Home Naloxone in British Columbia and the role of community pharmacies: Results from the analysis of administrative data.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

British Columbia's (BC) Take-Home Naloxone (THN) program provides naloxone to bystanders for use in cases of suspected opioid overdose. This study seeks to provide trends and analysis from the provincial BC THN program since inception in 2012 to the end of 2018.

Materials and methods

BC THN shipment and distribution records from 2012-2018 were retrieved. Frequency distributions were used to describe characteristics of individuals accessing the program. To evaluate correlates of distribution after the addition of hundreds of pharmacy distribution sites, an analytic sample was limited to records from 2018, and multivariate logistic regression was used to evaluate correlates of collecting naloxone at a pharmacy site.

Results

Since program inception to the en

SUBMITTER: Moustaqim-Barrette A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7485887 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature