ArticleHarm reduction journal2024
Implementing Canada's first national virtual phone based overdose prevention service: lessons learned from creating the National Overdose Response Service (NORS).
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Supervised consumption sites and population-level overdose mortality: a systematic review of recent evidence, 2016-2024.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2025Pooled it
- "We're here, and we're non-judgmental, we're here to save lives": stressors and fulfillment among overdose response hotline operators in Canada.Harm reduction journal · 2026Article
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- Perspectives of people who use drugs on implementing overdose response technologies in acute care settings: a qualitative study.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- Gender-based differences in harm reduction practices among people who use drugs in Rhode island: a latent class analysis.Harm reduction journal · 2025Article
- Expanding supervised consumption services in rural Canada: Bridging gaps.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025Article
- Responding to drug-related harm among South Asian populations in Canada.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025Article
- Perspectives of key interest groups regarding supervised Consumption sites (SCS) and novel virtual harm reduction services / overdose response hotlines and applications: a qualitative Canadian study.Harm reduction journal · 2024Article
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Abstract
The opioid epidemic remains one of the largest public health crises in North America to date. While there have been many diverse strategies developed to reduce the harms associated with substance use, these are primarily concentrated within a few large urban centers. As a result, there have been increased calls for equitable access to harm reduction services for those who cannot or choose not to access in-person harm reduction services. In December 2020, Canada's National Overdose Response Service (NORS) a telephone based overdose response hotline and virtual supervised consumption service, was established in collaboration with various agencies and people with lived and living experience of substance use (PWLLE) across Canada to expand access to harm reduction services using novel Opioid Response Technology. In this manuscript we explore the lessons learned from the establishment and continued operation of the service exploring topics related to the initial establishment of the service, securing a phone line, routing technology, EMS dispatch solutions, peer and volunteer recruitment, legal and ethical support, policy and procedure development, securing funding, and marketing. Furthermore, we detail how this service has grown and changed in response to the various needs of service users.
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