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Sadie Chen; Galya Walt; Alison Aldrich; Ann Scheck McAlearney; Benjamin Linas; Brenda Amuchi; Darcy A. Freedman; Dawn Goddard-Eckrich; Erin Gibson; Jeanie Hartman; Julie Bosak; Karsten Lunze; Latasha Jones; Mia Christopher; Pamela Salsberry; Rebecca Jackson; Sandi Back; Mari-Lynn Drainoni; Daniel M. Walker – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Opioid overdose deaths are dramatically increasing in the United States and disproportionately affecting minority communities, with the increasing presence of fentanyl exacerbating this crisis. Developing community coalitions is a long-standing strategy used to address public health issues. However, there is a limited understanding of how…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Narcotics, Social Differences, Public Health
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Condie, Alise Williams; Judd, Hailey; Yaugher, Ashley C. – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
The opioid overdose epidemic continues to disproportionately impact underserved rural areas throughout the nation, with many of these rural areas experiencing greater opioid-related mortality rates than their urban counterparts. With limited treatment infrastructure and resources, two rural communities in Southeast Utah utilized community-based…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Community Education
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Dworkis, Daniel A.; Tang, Willis; Ritcheson, Nicolas C. M.; Raviv, Orian; Fowler, Andrew; Ellig, Katelin; Goley, Stephanie; Arora, Sanjay – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Opioid use and the risk of opioid overdose are growing public health concerns for college-aged adults. Naloxone can temporarily reverse opioid overdoses, but only if easily accessible. On most college campuses, "blue light" phones (BLPs)--call boxes topped with a blue light--offer visible access to emergency services. We…
Descriptors: Prevention, Telecommunications, Access to Health Care, Drug Therapy
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Mary Nelson Robertson; Holli H. Seitz; Laura H. Downey; Alisha M. Hardman; Je'Kylynn S. Steen; David R. Buys – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
This study assesses adults' perceptions of and predictors of intention to use prescription drug take-back boxes. This mixed methods study utilized focus groups and an online survey to examine factors related to intention to use a prescription drug take-back box. This study was conducted in [State] during the spring and summer of 2018. Themes…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Drug Therapy, Pharmacy, Barriers
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Doughty, Bennett; Young, Sarah; Eggleston, William – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Access to naloxone is a priority for reducing opioid overdose deaths. Although participants who receive naloxone training are able to successfully administer it, the impact of training on community member knowledge and attitudes has not been explored. Participants: A total of 105 participants 18 years and older at a medium-sized…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Drug Abuse, Community Attitudes, Access to Health Care
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LaSane, Kendall; Ko, Charles; Dolatshahi, Jennifer; Nolan, Michelle L.; Libou, Molly; Barrasse, Danielle; Paone, Denise – Health Education Journal, 2022
Background: Fentanyl has become increasingly present in the illicit drug supply, including in cocaine. Interventions that target non-opioid use are a necessary component of overdose prevention due to the increased presence of fentanyl. Objectives: To assess management and staff reception to overdose prevention messaging and access to naloxone in…
Descriptors: Administration, Professional Personnel, Prevention, Narcotics
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Bonnevie, Erika; Kaynak, Övgü; Whipple, Christopher R.; Kensinger, Weston S.; Stefanko, Matthew; McKeon, Courtney; Mendell, Gary; Smyser, Joe – Health Education Journal, 2022
Introduction: Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a critical health issue in the USA. Pennsylvania has the third highest number of drug overdose deaths per year, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening these trends. Stigmatising beliefs towards OUD are associated with negative health outcomes, and there is a need for a larger evidence base on OUD stigma…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Social Bias, Death, Correlation
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McGinty, Emma E.; Siddiqi, Sameer; Linden, Sarah; Horwitz, Joshua; Frattaroli, Shannon – Health Education Research, 2019
Many of the policies shown to benefit the public's health in research studies are never widely implemented. We conducted a qualitative and exploratory multiple-case study of three U.S. academic research-policy translation initiatives that resulted in the development, enactment and/or implementation of evidence-based policies to address public…
Descriptors: Public Health, Weapons, Narcotics, Drug Abuse
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Graham, S. Scott – Written Communication, 2021
This article offers a longitudinal computational-rhetorical analysis of biomedical writing on opioids. Using a corpus of 1,467 articles and essays published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" and the "Journal of the American Medical Association" between 1959 and May 2019, this study evaluates diachronic shifts in (a) the…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Epidemiology, Medical Research
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Yanovitzky, Itzhak – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
This study is the first to analyze public response to a drug take-back program, the American Medicine Chest Challenge, in a single state over a period of 3 years (2010-2012). The study utilized a three-wave repeated cross-sectional design and an annual phone survey conducted with a representative sample of adults (N = 906 in 2010, N = 907 in 2011,…
Descriptors: Responses, State Programs, Drug Abuse, Adults
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Laura Brandt; Nishanthi J. Anthonipillai; Teresa López-Castro; Robert Melara; Adriana Espinosa – Journal of American College Health, 2024
This study explored substance use trajectories and associations with mental health among an ethnically/racially diverse college student sample before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We combined repeated cross-sections and panel data from a total of 3,247 college students assessed with an online survey in 2018, 2019, and in three waves in 2020.…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Correlation
Jessica Drescher; Lily Steyer; Carrie Townley-Flores; Keith Humphreys – Grantee Submission, 2022
The potential spillover effects of the United States' opioid epidemic on children's educational outcomes have received surprisingly little attention from researchers. Accordingly, this study leverages national datasets of county-level opioid prescription rates and public school students' third- to eighth-grade academic achievement to provide the…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment, Incidence
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Fischer, Benedikt; Burnett, Chantal; Rehm, Jurgen – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2015
Prescription opioid (POs, i.e. opioid analgesics requiring a prescription) related harms are extensive in North America; non-medical PO use (NMPOU), PO-related morbidity (e.g. hospital or treatment admissions) and mortality (e.g. overdose deaths) are high in the general population. Most recommendations towards reducing PO-related problems to date…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Drug Abuse, Public Health
Johnston, Lloyd D.; Schulenberg, John E.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Patrick, Megan E.; Miech, Richard A.; Bachman, Jerald G. – Institute for Social Research, 2021
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of American adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 60. The study is funded under a series of investigator-initiated, competing research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and has been conducted annually by the University of Michigan's Institute for…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Risk, Prevention, High School Graduates
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Bird, Sheila M.; Parmar, Mahesh K. B.; Strang, John – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2015
Aims: Scotland was the first country to adopt take-home naloxone (THN) as a funded public health policy. We summarise the background and rigorous set-up for before/after monitoring to assess the impact on high-risk opiate-fatalities. Methods: Evidence-synthesis of prospectively monitored small-scale THN schemes led to a performance indicator for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drug Abuse, Prevention, Death
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