ResearchProjects

This study will provide insight into barriers to naloxone awareness and access, as well as the psychosocial and behavioral impacts of being “protected” by naloxone while engaging in overdose risk behaviors, of using naloxone on someone else, and or surviving an overdose in which naloxone was used. Findings from this study will provide an empirical basis to strengthen and refine existing overdose prevention efforts and to design tailored interventions to engage opioid users who have recently survived or reversed an overdose.

Abstract on NIH RePORTER

Bennett AS, Guarino H, Britton PC, O'Brien-Mazza D, Cook SH, Taveras F, Cortez J, Elliott L (2022).
U.S. military veterans and the opioid overdose crisis: A review of risk factors and prevention efforts
Annals of Medicine, 54 (1), 1826-1838. doi: 10.1080/07853890.2022.2092896. PMCID: PMC9262363.

Scheidell JD, Hoff L, Khan MR, Bennett AS, Elliott L (2022).
Parenting and childcare responsibilities, harm reduction service engagement, and opioid overdose among women and men who use illicit opioids in New York City
Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 3, 100054. doi: 10.1016/j.dadr.2022.100054. PMCID: PMC9224239.

Elliott L, Crasta D, Khan M, Roth A, Green T, Kolodny A, Bennett AS (2021).
Validation of the Opioid Overdose Risk Behavior Scale, version 2 (ORBS-2)
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 223, 108721. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108721. PMCID: PMC8113089.