Some law enforcement officers' negative attitudes toward overdose victims are exacerbated following overdose education training.
CONCLUSIONS: Despite a comprehensive OEND training that addressed addiction and harm reduction and directly targeted hypothesized drivers of negative attitudes (e.g., risk compensation beliefs), some officers' attitudes worsened after the training. Randomized experiments of different training approaches would elucidate the mediators and moderators underlying these unexpected responses.
PMID: 32931324 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse - Category: Addiction Authors: Winograd RP, Stringfellow EJ, Phillips SK, Wood CA Tags: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse Source Type: research
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