Supporting community overdose response planning in Ontario, Canada: Findings from a situational assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many communities across North America are coming together to develop comprehensive plans to address and respond to the escalating overdose crisis, largely driven by an increasingly toxic unregulated drug supply. As there is a need to build capacity for successful implementation, the objective of our mixed methods study was to identify the current planning and implementation practices, needs, and priority areas of support for community overdose response plans in Ontario, Canada.

Methods

We used a situational assessment methodology to collect data on current planning and implementation practices, needs, and challenges related to community overdose response plans in Ontario, consisting of three components. Between November 2019 to February 2020, we conducted ten semi

SUBMITTER: Khorasheh T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9296108 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature