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Naloxone training and prescription to reduce opioid overdose mortality after release from prison
Summary of the evidence
Brief training and standardised naloxone supply for individuals at risk of opioid overdose in prison has been found to be effective in a pre-post evaluation of a national policy (Bird et al.,2016) in:
- reducing by 36 % the proportion of opioid-related deaths that occurred in the 4 weeks following release from prison (from 9.8 % of ORDs (193/1970) in 2006–10 to 6.3 % of ORDs (76/1212) in 2011–13).
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Note: this evidence summary is only valid for the outcomes, target groups, settings and substances/patterns of use described below.
