ArticleHealth & justice2021
Can touch this: training to correct police officer beliefs about overdose from incidental contact with fentanyl.
Article in Health & justice, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- Variation in knowledge and attitudes among overdose prevention collaborations: Insights from fatality review teams.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Article
- A qualitative study of police officers' knowledge of the relationship between police opioid seizures and subsequent risk of overdose.Health & justice · 2025Article
- Online Interventions Addressing Health Misinformation: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- "All it's gonna tell you is if it has fentanyl or not:" Perceptions of fentanyl and drug checking among first responders and people who use drugs.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Article
- Assessing fentanyl and methamphetamine in air and on surfaces of transit vehicles.Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene · 2025Article
- Beliefs of US chiefs of police about substance use disorder, fentanyl exposure, overdose response, and use of discretion: results from a national survey.Health & justice · 2025Article
- The Rise of Fentanyl: Molecular Aspects and Forensic Investigations.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Normalizing fentanyl: interpreting the perceived 'risk' of correctional officer work.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of take ACTION online naloxone training for law enforcement officers.Health & justice · 2023Article
- Stakeholder-engaged research is necessary across the criminal-legal spectrum.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2023Article
- Opioid harm reduction and stigma: proposed methods to improve the perception of people with addiction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Characteristics of events in which police responded to overdoses: an examination of incident reports in Rhode Island.Harm reduction journal · 2022Article
- Leveraging Body-Worn Camera Footage to Better Understand Opioid Overdoses and the Impact of Police-Administered Naloxone.American journal of public health · 2022Review
- The Impact of Stigma on People with Opioid Use Disorder, Opioid Treatment, and Policy.Substance abuse and rehabilitation · 2022Review
- Depoliticization of Violence: Critical Limits of Risk Environment Frameworks in Drug Use Research.Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financingReview
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Misinformation about overdose risk from accidentally inhaling or touching fentanyl is widespread among police in the United States. This may aggravate already elevated burdens of officer stress and burnout, while chilling lifesaving overdose response. Police education has shown promise in reducing false beliefs about fentanyl. To better understand the potential of training interventions in correcting officer knowledge, we administered a 10-min online training with corrective messaging about occupational overdose risk from fentanyl contact to 204 police officers in Indiana. Overall, 129 officers (63%) completed baseline survey and 69 (34%) completed follow-up instrument. Using a 6-point Likert scale, we documented assent with the statement: "First responders who encounter fentanyl are at great risk of overdose by touching it or inhaling it." At baseline, 79.8% expressed agreement, while 20.2% disagreed. At follow-up, 39.1% agreed, while 60.9% disagreed (p < .001). Baseline responses varied in that those officers without a college degree and those on patrol were more likely to report false beliefs. A brief online training intervention holds promise for correcting false beliefs about the risk of fentanyl overdose under circumstances commonly encountered by police.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.