Talking About Naloxone in a Primary Care or Pain Management Setting
Presented by Phillip Coffin, MD
Director of Substance Use Research at the San Francisco Department of Public Health

Talking About Naloxone in a Substance Abuse Treatment Setting
Presented by Eliza Wheeler, MA, MS
Drug Overdose Prevention and Education Project (DOPE), San Francisco

Inside the "Naloxone Kit"
Presented by Eliza Wheeler, MA, MS
Drug Overdose Prevention and Education Project (DOPE), San Francisco

Other Naloxone Videos from Prescribe to Prevent

Resources for Prescribers

• Handout for Pharmacists (from San Francisco Department of Public Health)
• Handout for Pain or Primary Care Patients (from San Francisco Department of Public Health)
• Naloxone Program Implementation Manual and online resources 
  www.harmreduction.org/issues/overdose-prevention/tools-best-practices
• Clinic-based prescribing information and guidelines
  www.prescribetoprevent.org
• Pharmacy resources
  www.stopoverdose.org
• Advocacy film and materials: Reach for Me: Fighting to End the American Drug Overdose Epidemic 
  www.reach4me.org
• Description of Massachusetts Naloxone program 
  http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov/content.aspx?id=3912​

Resources for Recipients

• Videos about naloxone, opioid safety/overdose, and how to respond in emergencies
  * http://harmreduction.org/issues/overdose-prevention/tools-best-practices/overdose-videos/
  * http://www.prescribetoprevent.org/video

• How to find a community-based naloxone distribution program (for parents and drug users who do not have access through the health care system):
  http://www.overdosepreventionalliance.org/p/od-prevention-program-locator.html​

Resources for Families

• Learn to Cope: online discussion forum for parents of drug users 
  http://www.learn2cope.org/
• Grief Recovery from a Substance Passing (GRASP), for people who have lost a loved one to overdose
  http://grasphelp.org/
• Broken No More, a support group and advocacy organization for parents interested in advocating for drug policy reform
  http://broken-no-more.org/

Research

• Research updates and other overdose-related news
  www.overdosepreventionalliance.org
• Project Lazarus: community-based overdose prevention in rural North Carolina. Albert S, Brason FW, 2nd, Sanford CK, Dasgupta N, Graham J, Lovette B.  Pain Med. Jun 2011;12 Suppl 2:S77-85 [Link on Pub Med] Addresses naloxone for pain patients.
• Opioid overdose rates and implementation of overdose education and nasal naloxone distribution in Massachusetts: interrupted time series analysis. Walley, et al, BMJ. 2013 Jan 30;346:f174. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f174. [full text]
• Cost-effectiveness of distributing naloxone to heroin users for lay overdose reversal. Coffin PO, Sullivan SD.  Ann Intern Med. 2013 Jan 1;158(1):1-9 [link to abstract]
• Community-Based Opioid Overdose Prevention Programs Providing Naloxone — United States, 2010, Eliza Wheeler, et al. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, February 17, 2012 [link]