Trial reportSubstance use & addiction journal2024
Results From the POINT Pragmatic Randomized Trial: An Emergency Department-Based Peer Support Specialist Intervention to Increase Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Linkage and Reduce Recurrent Overdose.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of peer recovery support services for substance use disorders: A systematic review of healthcare utilization, behavioral health, and engagement outcomes.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2026Pooled it
- Risk and protective factors for relapse after residential substance use treatment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of a peer-led emergency department behavioral intervention on non-fatal opioid overdose: 18-month outcome in the Navigator randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2024Trial
- Peer Support Workers to Improve Emergency Department Care Completion Among Patients Who Use Substances: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Article
- Inpatient utilization among Medicaid members with substance use disorder in Oregon.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2026Article
- Emergency Department Peer Recovery Support Services for Individuals with Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Review of Comparative Studies.Substance abuse and rehabilitation · 2026Review
- Building connection: overdose survivors' and professional service providers' perspectives on immediate post-overdose care.The International journal on drug policy · 2025Article
- Response to a peer telehealth intervention for emergency department patients presenting with opioid use disorder or unintentional overdose: a stratified interrupted time series analysis.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2025Article
- Peer Recovery Support Services and Recovery Coaching for Substance Use Disorder: A Systematic Review.Current addiction reports · 2025Article
- What happens after the funding ends?: A qualitative sustainability investigation of emergency department-based peer support programs implemented as part of Indiana's opioid state targeted response initiative.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Article
- Peer support for patients with opioid use disorder in the emergency department: A narrative review.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024Review
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Authors and funding
8 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundPeople with opioid use disorder (OUD) frequently present at the emergency department (ED), a potentially critical point for intervention and treatment linkage. Peer recovery support specialist (PRSS) interventions have expanded in US-based EDs, although evidence supporting such interventions has not been firmly established.
methodsResearchers conducted a pragmatic trial of POINT (Project Planned Outreach, Intervention, Naloxone, and Treatment), an ED-initiated intervention for harm reduction and recovery coaching/treatment linkage in 2 Indiana EDs. Cluster randomization allocated patients to the POINT intervention (n
resultsPOINT and standard care participants did not differ significantly on any outcomes measured. Participants who presented to the ED for overdose had significantly lower scores (3.5 vs 4.2,
conclusionsThis is the first randomized trial investigating overdose outcomes for an ED peer recovery support specialist intervention. Though underpowered, results suggest no benefit of PRSS services over standard care. Given the scope of PRSS, future work in this area should assess more recovery- and harm reduction-oriented outcomes, as well as the potential benefits of integrating PRSS within multimodal ED-based interventions for OUD.
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