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Lynch, Emily; Goyal, Deepika; Moore, Dorothy James – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Background: College campus police departments are providing law enforcement officers the authority to administer naloxone, the antidote to opioid overdose. This study explored the competence, concerns, and readiness among college campus-based law enforcement officers in Northern California to administer naloxone in case of an opioid overdose on…
Descriptors: Law Enforcement, Police School Relationship, Drug Therapy, Narcotics
Xavioer, Sharon; Bethishou, Laressa; Dintzner, Madeline; Taheri, Reza; Lewis, Jelena – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2023
The United States faces several ongoing public health issues including the opioid epidemic. This article describes a new model aimed at providing a framework that incorporates the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to develop pharmacy student leaders through education, experiences, and development of critical skills. This…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Narcotics, Sustainable Development, Pharmaceutical Education
Marcy K. Hite; Alyson J. Chroust; Kerry Proctor-Williams; Jennifer L. Lowe – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Infants prenatally exposed to opioids exhibit withdrawal symptomology that introduce physiological noise and can impact newborn hearing screening results. This study compared the referral rate and physiological noise interpreted by number of trials rejected due to artifact on initial newborn hearing screenings of infants with prenatal…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Neonates, Drug Abuse, Narcotics
Hash, Kristina M.; Tower, Leslie E. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2022
Opioid addiction is a widespread problem that social workers will undoubtedly face in practice. Curricular infusion is an approach that has gained recognition in social work education for integrating critical, contemporary topics into courses. This paper details a project that infused opioid addiction in baccalaureate of social work (BSW) courses,…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Addictive Behavior, Social Work, Undergraduate Students
Vyas, Ridhi; Bailey, Kaylin; Vyas, Niraj; Compton, Peggy – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: This study assessed undergraduate unhealthy substance use, levels of knowledge about opioid pharmacology, unhealthy use and safety, and students' perceptions about their level of knowledge. Participants: Participants were undergraduate students at a large, private university in the Northeast. Methods: This study employed a…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Undergraduate Students
Charles L. Lowery; Chetanath Gautam – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2023
Over the last several decades, the opioid crisis has had an increasing impact on the educational environment of schools. The role that principals and superintendents have in leading schools that have been affected by opioids has been mostly overlooked in the research. The present study was conducted in Ohio, a state with areas that have some of…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Principals, Superintendents, Narcotics
Steven B. Harrod; Sayward E. Harrison; Samuel D. McQuillin; Mark D. Weist – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: The opioid epidemic has created unprecedented challenges in the United States (US), including hundreds of thousands of lives lost to overdose in the past five years. Expansion of prevention and treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) is urgently needed, as evidence-based strategies exist but many remain unable to access life-saving…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Schools, Drug Abuse, Addictive Behavior
Sadie Chen; Galya Walt; Alison Aldrich; Ann Scheck McAlearney; Benjamin Linas; Brenda Amuchi; Darcy A. Freedman; Dawn Goddard-Eckrich; Erin Gibson; Jeanie Hartman; Julie Bosak; Karsten Lunze; Latasha Jones; Mia Christopher; Pamela Salsberry; Rebecca Jackson; Sandi Back; Mari-Lynn Drainoni; Daniel M. Walker – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Opioid overdose deaths are dramatically increasing in the United States and disproportionately affecting minority communities, with the increasing presence of fentanyl exacerbating this crisis. Developing community coalitions is a long-standing strategy used to address public health issues. However, there is a limited understanding of how…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Narcotics, Social Differences, Public Health
Ryan, Liz – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2022
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) invests in mentoring programs and services to help ensure positive outcomes for youth. Successful mentoring relationships have been shown to increase youth's self-esteem, improve academic achievement, and steer them away from delinquency, substance use, and other high-risk…
Descriptors: Youth, Mentors, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency Prevention
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2023
Despite the elevation of the opioid crisis in the U.S. to the level of a nationwide public health emergency in 2017, the number of opioid-involved overdose deaths has continued to rise. The impact of the opioid epidemic extends well beyond the tragedy of fatal overdose. Nonfatal overdose can result in brain injury and permanent disability, and…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Addiction, Drug Abuse, Prevention
Zhang, Lixin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Social network analysis (SNA) is increasingly viewed as a contributing methodology to program evaluation to examine the complexities of social programs and interrelationships within the program networks. Despite the growing literature on the topic, more knowledge is needed to understand how, when, and under what conditions social network analysis…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Program Evaluation, Health Education
Huang, Lyen C.; Johnson, Jordan E.; Bleicher, Josh; Blumling, Allison N.; Savarise, Mark; Wetter, David W.; Cohan, Jessica N.; Harris, Alex A.S.; Kaphingst, Kimberly A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Background: Patients rarely dispose of left-over opioids after surgery. Disposal serves as a primary prevention against misuse, overdose, and diversion. However, current interventions promoting disposal have mixed efficacy. Increasing disposal in rural communities could prevent or reduce the harms caused by prescription opioids. Aims: Identify…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Therapy, Surgery, Rural Areas
Holloway, Amanda; Cox, Sherry; Roop, Bridget; Moates, Joseph M. – American Journal of Health Education, 2023
Background" Reducing opioid reliance in chronic pain treatment may best be accomplished with interdisciplinary teams. Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs) are one format whereby an interdisciplinary team partners with groups of patients to provide health education and clinical care. The Whole Health (WH) model is an emerging framework whereby…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Veterans Education, Health Education, Pain
Condie, Alise Williams; Judd, Hailey; Yaugher, Ashley C. – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
The opioid overdose epidemic continues to disproportionately impact underserved rural areas throughout the nation, with many of these rural areas experiencing greater opioid-related mortality rates than their urban counterparts. With limited treatment infrastructure and resources, two rural communities in Southeast Utah utilized community-based…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Community Education
Hailey Judd; Alise Williams Condie; Ashley C. Yaugher; Mateja R. Savoie-Roskos; Gabriela Murza; Timothy Keady; Sadie Wilde; Rachel Myrer; Maren Wright Voss – Journal of Extension, 2024
Cooperative Extension is in a unique position to address health and wellness concerns across the country, particularly in rural areas with local Extension services. One innovative model, the Health Extension: Advocacy, Research, and Teaching (HEART) Initiative, unites Extension, community organizations, and community members in collaborative…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Drug Abuse, Narcotics, Best Practices