Overdose prevention for prisoners in New York: a novel program and collaboration
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- 作者：Howard Zucker ; Anthony J. Annucci ; Sharon Stancliff…
- 关键词：Opioid overdose prevention ; Prisoner re ; entry ; Pre ; release prisoner training ; Prisoner overdose fatality ; Naloxone ; Overdose prevention with naloxone ; Public health ; Prisoner health ; Opioid deaths
- 刊名：Harm Reduction Journal
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：12
- 期：1
- 全文大小：338 KB
- 刊物主题：Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Social Policy; Social Work; Health Psychology;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1477-7517
文摘
This is a brief report on the establishment of a new program in New York State prisons to prepare prisoners to avoid the increased risks of drug overdose death associated with the transition to the community by training them in overdose prevention and making available naloxone, a medication that quickly reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, to all prisoners as they re-enter the community. It is a milestone collaboration in the USA between public health, the correctional system, and a community-based harm reduction program in response to the growth of heroin and opioid analgesic use and related morbidity and mortality, working together to get naloxone into the hands of the people at high risk of overdosing and/or of witnessing an opioid overdose.