Survey representativeness, quantifying uncertainty, and the importance of well-posed questions about the administration of take-home naloxone

The national survey for Wales of non-fatal overdose among injecting opiate users who attended needle-exchange schemes during a 4-week period in February to March 2013 was specifically-designed by Bennett, Holloway, and Bird (2014). Their aim was to create a baseline measure of the prevalence of non-fatal overdose that could be used to monitor the impact of take-home naloxone (THN) and other harm-reduction interventions. Following Scotland (Bird, Parmar,& Strang, 2015; Bird, McAuley, Perry,& Hunter, 2016; Bird, McAuley, Munro, Hutchinson,& Taylor, 2017), Wales ’s National Naloxone Policy (NNP) had rolled out to the whole of Wales in the second half of 2011 (Bennett& Holloway, 2011).
Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Response Source Type: research