TY - JOUR
AU - Winstanley, Erin L.
AB - REVIEW A Systematic Review of Community Opioid Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Distribution Programs Angela K. Clark, MSN, RN, Christine M. Wilder, MD, and Erin L. Winstanley, PhD and prevents fatalities (Buajordet et al., 2004; Clarke et al., Community-based opioid overdose prevention programs (OOPPs) 2005; Dahan et al., 2010; Boyer, 2012). In 1996, community- that include the distribution of naloxone have increased in response based programs, often referred to as opioid overdose preven- to alarmingly high overdose rates in recent years. This systematic re- tion programs (OOPPs), began naloxone distribution directly view describes the current state of the literature on OOPPs, with par- to patients at high risk for overdose (Sporer and Kral, 2007; ticular focus on the effectiveness of these programs. We used system- Wheeler et al., 2012). Although bystander administration of atic search criteria to identify relevant articles, which we abstracted naloxone by nonmedical persons is considered an off-label and assigned a quality assessment score. Nineteen articles evaluating use of the medication, some states have passed legislation pro- OOPPs met the search criteria for this systematic review. Principal tecting prescribing physicians and bystander administrators findings included participant demographics, the number of nalox- from civil and/or medical liability (Sporer 
TI - A Systematic Review of Community Opioid Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Distribution Programs
JF - Journal of Addiction Medicine
DO - 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000034
DA - 2014-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/a-systematic-review-of-community-opioid-overdose-prevention-and-OPXsHT2Cqk
SP - 153–163-153&ndash
EP - ndash;163-153–163
VL - 8
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -