The implementation and role of a staff naloxone program for non-profit community-based sites in British Columbia: A descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The BC Centre for Disease Control implemented the Facility Overdose Response Box (FORB) program December 1st, 2016 to train and support non-healthcare service providers who may respond to an overdose in the workplace. The program aims to support staff at non-profit community-based organizations by ensuring policy development, training, practice overdose response exercises, and post-overdose debriefing opportunities are established and implemented.

Materials and methods

Three data sources were used in this descriptive cross-sectional study: FORB site registration data; naloxone administration forms; and a survey that was distributed to FORB sites in February 2019. FORB program site and naloxone administration data from December 1st, 2016 to December 31st, 2019 we

SUBMITTER: Williams S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8118334 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature