Relay: A Peer-Delivered Emergency Department-Based Response to Nonfatal Opioid Overdose

Relay, a peer-delivered response to nonfatal opioid overdoses, provides overdose prevention education, naloxone, support, and linkage to care to opioid overdose survivors for 90 days after an overdose event. From June 2017 to December 2018, Relay operated in seven New York City emergency departments...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 109; no. 10; pp. 1392 - 1395
Main Authors Welch, Alice E, Jeffers, Angela, Allen, Bennett, Paone, Denise, Kunins, Hillary V
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Public Health Association 01.10.2019
Subjects
Addictions
Adolescent
Adult
Advocacy
AJPH Practice
Alcohol
Case management
Distribution management
Drug overdose
Drug Overdose - drug therapy
Drug use
Drugs
Emergency medical care
Emergency medical services
Emergency response
Emergency Service, Hospital - standards
Epidemics
Female
Harm reduction
Hospital systems
Humans
Hygiene
Injury/Emergency Care/Violence
Intervention
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality
Naloxone
Naloxone - administration & dosage
Naloxone - therapeutic use
Narcotic Antagonists - administration & dosage
Narcotic Antagonists - therapeutic use
Narcotics
Narcotics - poisoning
New York City
Opioid-Related Disorders - therapy
Opioids
Overdose
Patient Education as Topic - organization & administration
Peer Group
Peers
Pharmacists
Prevention
Primary care
Program Evaluation
Public health
Public Health Practice
Relay
Risk reduction
Social networks
Substance abuse treatment
Systematic review
Young Adult
New York City
United States > US
New York City New York
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Summary:Relay, a peer-delivered response to nonfatal opioid overdoses, provides overdose prevention education, naloxone, support, and linkage to care to opioid overdose survivors for 90 days after an overdose event. From June 2017 to December 2018, Relay operated in seven New York City emergency departments and enrolled 649 of the 876 eligible individuals seen (74%). Preliminary data show high engagement, primarily among individuals not touched by harm reduction or naloxone distribution networks. Relay is a novel and replicable response to the opioid epidemic.
Bibliography:A. E. Welch, A. Jeffers, and B. Allen drafted the article. A. E. Welch performed the data analyses. D. Paone and H. V. Kunins oversaw all aspects of the study. All of the authors contributed to study design, data interpretation, and revisions of the article.
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ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305202