ArticleSubstance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy2021
A scoping review of factors that influence opioid overdose prevention for justice-involved populations.
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- Description of implementing a mail-based overdose education and naloxone distribution program in community supervision settings during COVID-19.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Trial
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- Allocative efficiency analysis of strategies to reduce overdose deaths among people with opioid use disorder and history of incarceration in Connecticut.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Identifying emergency department patients at high risk for opioid overdose using natural language processing and machine learning.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Article
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- Overdose education and naloxone distribution among women with a history of OUD transitioning to the community following jail release.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Agent-Based Model of Combined Community- and Jail-Based Take-Home Naloxone Distribution.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Adaptation of a trauma-informed intervention to prevent opioid use among youth in the legal system.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Article
- Rapid jail-based implementation of overdose education and naloxone distribution in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.Health & justice · 2024Article
- Overdose Experiences Among a Sample of Women in Jail with Opioid Use Disorder.Substance use & misuse · 2024Article
- Antecedents of fatal overdose in an adult cohort identified through administrative record linkage in Indiana, 2015-2022.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Article
- Barriers and facilitators to the use of medication for opioid use disorder within the criminal justice system: Perspectives from clinicians.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Article
- Opioid-related deaths in Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington in Ontario, Canada: the shadow epidemic.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2023Article
- Availability of best practices for opioid use disorder in jails and related training and resource needs: findings from a national interview study of jails in heavily impacted counties in the U.S.Health & justice · 2022Article
- Barriers and facilitators to opioid agonist treatment (OAT) engagement among individuals released from federal incarceration into the community in Ontario, Canada.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2022Article
- Types of criminal legal system exposure and polysubstance use: Prevalence and correlates among U.S. adults in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2015-2019.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is a high risk of death from opioid overdose following release from prison. Efforts to develop and implement overdose prevention programs for justice-involved populations have increased in recent years. An understanding of the gaps in knowledge on prevention interventions is needed to accelerate development, implementation, and dissemination of effective strategies.
methodsA systematic search process identified 43 published papers addressing opioid overdose prevention in criminal justice settings or among justice-involved populations from 2010 to February 2020. Cross-cutting themes were identified, coded and qualitatively analyzed.
resultsPapers were coded into five categories: acceptability (n = 8), accessibility (n = 4), effectiveness (n = 5), feasibility (n = 7), and participant overdose risk (n = 19). Common themes were: (1) Acceptability of naloxone is associated with injection drug use, overdose history, and perceived risk within the situational context; (2) Accessibility of naloxone is a function of the interface between corrections and community; (3) Evaluations of overdose prevention interventions are few, but generally show increases in knowledge or reductions in opioid overdose; (4) Coordinated efforts are needed to implement prevention interventions, address logistical challenges, and develop linkages between corrections and community providers; (5) Overdose is highest immediately following release from prison or jail, often preceded by service-system interactions, and associated with drug-use severity, injection use, and mental health disorders, as well as risks in the post-release environment.
conclusionStudy findings can inform the development of overdose prevention interventions that target justice-involved individuals and policies to support their implementation across criminal justice and community-based service systems.
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