Status:
COMPLETED
SOONER Feasibility Study Protocol
Lead Sponsor:
Unity Health Toronto
Collaborating Sponsors:
OCAD University
Toronto Public Health
Conditions:
Overdose
Eligibility:
All Genders
16+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Opioid Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution programs (OEND) involve training and equipping people who are likely to be bystanders to opioid overdose to recognize and respond to opioid-related ...
Detailed Description
Deaths from opioid overdose represent an important and expanding global public health epidemic. Opioid Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution programs (OEND) involve training and equipping peopl...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 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).
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 23 2019
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
December 10 2020
Estimated Enrollment :
90 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03821649
Start Date
January 23 2019
End Date
December 10 2020
Last Update
May 23 2022
Active Locations (4)
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1
Inner City Family Health Team
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2
St Michael's Hospital Emergency Department
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3
St Micheal's Health Centre at 410
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4
St Micheal's Hospital Rapid Access Addictions Medicine Clinic
Toronto, Canada