SOONER Feasibility Study Protocol (SOONER)
Overdose
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Overdose focused on measuring Education, Naloxone, Opioid, Overdose, Resuscitation
Eligibility Criteria
Participants are eligible by meeting any one or more of the following:
- Have a history of taking opioids at recognized 'high doses' (whether by prescription or otherwise, defined as >100mg morphine equivalent per day).
- Live with or is in frequent contact with others who use opioids or heroin.
- Have required emergency care for opioid overdose previously.
- Are enrolled in opioid agonist treatment programs (or has been in the last 6 months), including methadone or buprenorphine maintenance programs, particularly at high risk periods such as induction or discharge.
- Are being released from prison, and have a history of non-medical opioid use.
- Are receiving prescription opioid therapy with risk factors for adverse effects, including relevant comorbidities, co-prescriptions of benzodiazepines or other sedatives, concomitant ongoing alcohol use, or high dose prescription opioid therapy.
- Uses non-medical opioids, injects opioids, or acquires opioids from sources other than a pharmacy or healthcare setting.
Exclusion Criteria: Participants are ineligible by meeting any one or more of the following:
- Have a community do not resuscitate order.
- Have a terminal illness, end-of-life care, or illness likely to result in death within the study period.
- Have no mode of contact or follow-up.
- Plan to move away from Toronto during the study period.
- Have insufficient English language skills to participate in the study.
- Are an active or previously practicing healthcare professional or professional first responder (e.g.: firefighter, police officer, lifeguard, industrial first responder).
Sites / Locations
- Inner City Family Health Team
- St Michael's Hospital Emergency Department
- St Micheal's Health Centre at 410
- St Micheal's Hospital Rapid Access Addictions Medicine Clinic
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
SOONER Training and Naloxone Kit
Community or Hospital-Based Training
Participants in this arm will be shown the SOONER overdose response training video at the time of recruitment and given the SOONER Naloxone kit to take home.
Control arm - participants in this arm will be referred to the standard of care for Naloxone training. This standard of care includes community-based OEND programs and/or an existing hospital-based OEND program..