This is an academic paper showing that providing take-home naloxone to clients of opioid treatment providers (e.g. methadone clinics) is a good harm reduction strategy to reduce negative outcomes associated with opioid overdose in the community. Of the 395 participants enrolled in this study, 73 participants performed 114 opioid overdose reversals in the community over a one-year period. 

This is an academic paper that discusses the creation of an innovative tool for the statewide distribution of naloxone to areas that have been most impacted and populations that are high risk. This tool provides states and communities with a data-driven decision-making process for naloxone distribution.

This is an evidence brief from the Veterans Affairs Evidence Synthesis Program (authors Mackay et al.) that provides a review of 44 studies on patient outcomes following long-term opioid dose reduction or discontinuation, which include overdose and suicide. 

In response to rising opioid deaths, this report describes post-overdose outreach programs that connect overdose survivors with a variety of services and strategies to reduce their risk for future overdose. It provides evidence-based guidance to agencies and communities seeking to implement such programs and suggests best practices based on community experience and a review of the relevant literature.

This is a report from the Canadian Centre for Substance Use and Addiction (author Taha) that outlines the standard of service that should be implemented to provide person-centered care to all people experiencing harms from opioids across the continuum of care, including a summary of actions taking place across Canada at multiple levels of government.

This is a website from the National Institute for Health Care Management that provides data on the fourth wave of the opioid crisis, polysubstance use involving opioids and stimulants, such as cocaine and methamphetamine. 

This toolkit provides information on harm reduction services that include strategies to design and deliver harm reduction programs to the Boston community, as well ways to engage community members and potential users of these services. These strategies aim to educate the Boston community on how to use and engage with harm reduction services, and are likely applicable to other cities. 

This report is published by the Center for Court Innovation and describes a reconstruction of current drug court practices through the lens of harm reduction and bridging the gap between these contrasting paradigms. The report suggests more effective ways for drug courts to practice, such as abandoning the abstinence-only model, eliminating jail sanctions, and changing drug testing protocols.

This is an article from EMS World, a journal tailored to emergency medical services, that summarizes the post-overdose response of Palm Beach County Fire Rescue (PBCFR), which includes utilizing both mobile integrated healthcare (MIH) as the bridge between EMS and long-term treatment and peer outreach. 

This is a report from the Police Executive Research Forum that documents a forum put together for public safety and public health experts to discuss a comprehensive response to the opioid crisis. Information on building successful partnerships is discussed and successful joint public safety-public health interventions are highlighted within this document. 

This academic paper describes a study done to address the false belief among law enforcement that there is a risk of overdose from accidentally inhaling or touching fentanyl. The results showed that a brief training module can have a corrective effect on this false belief. 

This is a report from Quantum Units Education that provides clinical guidelines to comprehensively address opioid use disorder (OUD) in homeless populations, with a discussion on barriers to OUD treatment, successful interventions, and promising practices.