Systemized approach to equipping medical students with naloxone: a student-driven initiative to combat the opioid crisis

CONCLUSIONS: We propose that medical schools advocate for a hospital pharmacy-initiated workflow focused on convenience and accessibility to expand naloxone access to medical students as a strategy to strengthen the U.S. emergency response and prevention efforts aimed at reducing opioid-related morbidity and mortality. Expansion of our program to BWH internal medicine residents increased our distribution to over 110 healthcare workers, and efforts to expand the program to other BWH training programs and clinical sites such as the emergency department and outpatient infectious disease clinics are underway. With more than 90,000 medical students in the U.S., we believe that widespread implementation of targeted naloxone training and distribution to this population is an accessible approach to combating the public health crisis of opioid-related overdoses.PMID:38448949 | DOI:10.1186/s12909-024-05221-8

Source: Pain Physician - March 6, 2024 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Shahin A Saberi Sydney Moore Sienna Li Rory Vu Mather Mary B Daniels Amrita Shahani Antje Barreveld Todd Griswold Patrick McGuire Hilary S Connery Source Type: research