ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Peer Support and Overdose Prevention Responses: A Systematic 'State-of-the-Art' Review.
Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06843213 (Teaching Health Promotion and Resilience in Varied Environments), which is not on this map. Cited by 55 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Teaching Health Promotion and Resilience in Varied Environments: a Peer-led Intervention Following Hospital Discharge
Who cites it
55 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.
- "You are helping from the heart not just from the head": a systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis of the experiences of peer workers working with people experiencing homelessness and substance use.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Peer Navigator Intervention and Opioid-Related Adverse Events for Emergency Department Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
- "Sometimes I'm interested in seeing a fuller story to tell with numbers" Implementing a forecasting dashboard for harm reduction and overdose prevention: a qualitative assessment.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Assessing the feasibility, acceptability and accessibility of a peer-delivered intervention to reduce harm and improve the well-being of people who experience homelessness with problem substance use: the SHARPS study.Harm reduction journal · 2022Trial
- 'We Feel Invisible a Lot of the Time': Insights Into the Roles of Alcohol and Other Drug Lived and Living Experience Workers.Drug and alcohol review · 2026Article
- A community-based systematic review of economic evaluations of overdose prevention sites for people who use drugs: a study protocol.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2026Article
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- Use of clinic- and community-based overdose prevention services by sex workers who use drugs: findings from a community-based cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2017-2024).Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
- Building Capacity for Community-Engaged Peer-Focused Research: Results From the IRIS Recovery Research Fellowship.Health promotion practice · 2026Article
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- Co-Designing the PATH Harm Reduction Training for the Peer Workforce: A Community-Based Participatory Approach.Research square · 2025Article
- The Impact of Peer-Based Recovery Support Services: Mediating Factors of Client Outcomes.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2025Article
- Motivational interviewing to increase drug checking and reduce overdose rates among people who use drugs: protocol for a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation trial of an adjunctive intervention.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Recovery support services as part of the continuum of care for alcohol or drug use disorders.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Article
- Mapping experiences of workplace stigma and discrimination within the lived-living experience of illicit drug use and bloodborne virus peer workforce: a scoping review.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Drug use and sexual behaviors among women who inject drugs and use a syringe services program; Miami, Florida.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Navigating US illicit drug market volatility: harm reduction strategies employed by people who inject drugs.Health promotion international · 2025Article
- "To not feel fake, it can't be fake": co-creation of a harm reduction, peer-delivered, health-system intervention for people who use drugs.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Arrests and the Opioid Epidemic: An Investigation into the Spatial and Social Network Spillover of Opioid Overdoses in Chicago.Journal of quantitative criminology · 2025Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Overdose prevention for people who use illicit drugs is essential during the current overdose crisis. Peer support is a process whereby individuals with lived or living experience of a particular phenomenon provide support to others by explicitly drawing on these experiences. This review provides a systematic search and evidence synthesis of peer support within overdose prevention interventions for people who use illicit drugs. A systematic search of six databases (CINAHL, SocINDEX, PsycINFO, MEDLINE, Scopus, and Web of Knowledge) was conducted in November 2020 for papers published in English between 2000 and 2020. Following screening and full-text review, 46 papers met criteria and were included in this review. A thematic analysis approach was used to synthesize themes. Important findings include: the value of peers in creating trusted services; the diversity of peers' roles; the implications of barriers on peer-involved overdose prevention interventions; and the stress and trauma experienced by peers. Peers play a pivotal role in overdose prevention interventions for people who use illicit drugs and are essential to the acceptability and feasibility of such services. However, peers face considerable challenges within their roles, including trauma and burnout. Future interventions must consider how to support and strengthen peer roles in overdose settings.
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