Emerging Overdose Detection Technologies and Hotlines

AMERSA Talks

Episode 8 - Emerging Overdose Detection Technologies and Hotlines
Featuring:
Ju Park, PhD MHS
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research)
Director of Harm Reduction Innovation Lab
Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP
Director, Massachusetts Overdose Prevention Helpline
Harm Reduction Program Manager, Boston Medical Center

Host:
Ricky N. Bluthenthal, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
Associate Director of Institute of Addiction Sciences, USC
Most people who experience a fatal overdose are alone at the time of use and death (solitary drug use). Real-time monitoring of drug use events and rapid connection to a peer responder or Emergency Medical Services could save lives if widely available. This podcast will describe the rationale for remotely supervised drug use via overdose prevention technologies and hotlines and provide examples for how these programs are working in the United States.

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