Journal of urban health, 2019-02, Vol.96 (1), p.6-11
2019
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Community-Based Response to Fentanyl Overdose Outbreak, San Francisco, 2015
- Ist Teil von
- Journal of urban health, 2019-02, Vol.96 (1), p.6-11
- Ort / Verlag
- New York: Springer US
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2019
- Quelle
- SpringerLink
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- This report documents a successful intervention by a community-based naloxone distribution program in San Francisco. The program and its partner organizations, working with participants who use drugs, first identified the appearance of illicitly made fentanyl and increased outreach and naloxone distribution. Distribution of naloxone and reported use of naloxone to reverse opioid-involved overdoses increased significantly while the number of opioid-involved and fentanyl-involved overdose deaths did not. Community-based programs that provide training and naloxone to people who use drugs can serve as an early warning system for overdose risk and adaptively respond to the rapidly changing overdose risk environment.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 1099-3460eISSN: 1468-2869DOI: 10.1007/s11524-018-0250-xTitel-ID: cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_6391290
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Brief Report, Communities, Drug overdose, Early warning systems, Epidemiology, Fentanyl, Health Informatics, Medicine, Medicine & Public Health, Naloxone, Narcotics, Opioids, Outbreaks, Overdose, Public Health