Broadening access to naloxone: Community predictors of standing order naloxone distribution in Massachusetts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Naloxone is a prescription medication that reverses opioid overdoses. Allowing naloxone to be dispensed directly by a pharmacist without an individual prescription under a naloxone standing order (NSO) can expand access. The community-level factors associated with naloxone dispensed under NSO are unknown.

Methods

Using a dataset comprised of pharmacy reports of naloxone dispensed under NSO from 70% of Massachusetts retail pharmacies, we examined relationships between community-level demographics, rurality, measures of treatment for opioid use disorder, and overdose deaths with naloxone dispensed under NSO per ZIP Code-quarter from 2014 until 2018. We used a multi-variable zero-inflated negative binomial model, assessing odds of any naloxone dispensed under NSO, as

SUBMITTER: Chatterjee A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8714703 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature