Abstract
Launched in 2011, the Scottish national naloxone program marked an important development in public health policy. Central to its design were strategies to engage prisoners given their elevated risk of drug-related death in the weeks following liberation. Implementation across Scottish prisons has posed particular challenges linked to both operational issues within prison establishments and individual factors affecting staff delivering, and prisoners engaging, with the program. Barriers have been overcome through innovation and partnership working. This commentary has described how the development of the program in prisons has adapted to these challenges to a point where a largely consistent model is in place and where prisoners-on-release are reaping the benefits in terms of reduced opioid-related mortality.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 454-456 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Drug and Alcohol Review |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 10 Apr 2017 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - May 2018 |
Keywords
- national naloxone program
- Scotland
- prisoners
- drug-related deaths
- naloxone
- prison
- overdose
- mortality
Documents and Links
- Horsburgh, K. & McAuley, A. (2018) Scotland's national naloxone program: the prison experience
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Horsburgh, K. and McAuley, A. (2018), Scotland's national naloxone program: The prison experience. Drug and Alcohol Review, 37: 454-456, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/0.1111/dar.12542. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.