Effectiveness of Scotland's national naloxone programme: response to letter to editor

Sheila M Bird^{1

2}, Andrew McAuley^{3

4}, Samantha Perry⁵, Carole Hunter⁶

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¹ MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK. sheila.bird@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk.
² Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK. sheila.bird@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk.
³ NHS Health Scotland, Public Health Science Directorate, Glasgow, UK.
⁴ Institute for Applied Health Research, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK.
⁵ Emergency Department, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.
⁶ Addiction Services for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Possilpark Health and Care Centre, Glasgow, UK.

PMID: 27095522
DOI: 10.1111/add.13391

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Effectiveness of Scotland's national naloxone programme: response to letter to editor

Sheila M Bird et al. Addiction. 2016 Jul.

. 2016 Jul;111(7):1304-6.

doi: 10.1111/add.13391. Epub 2016 Apr 19.

Authors

Sheila M Bird^{1

2}, Andrew McAuley^{3

4}, Samantha Perry⁵, Carole Hunter⁶

Affiliations

¹ MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK. sheila.bird@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk.
² Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK. sheila.bird@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk.
³ NHS Health Scotland, Public Health Science Directorate, Glasgow, UK.
⁴ Institute for Applied Health Research, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK.
⁵ Emergency Department, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK.
⁶ Addiction Services for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Possilpark Health and Care Centre, Glasgow, UK.

PMID: 27095522
DOI: 10.1111/add.13391

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Keywords: Before/after policy evaluation; causality; effectiveness; national naloxone programme; opioid-related deaths; prison release opioid-related deaths; statistical power; take-home naloxone.

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Effectiveness of Scotland's National Naloxone Programme for reducing opioid-related deaths: a before (2006-10) versus after (2011-13) comparison.
Bird SM, McAuley A, Perry S, Hunter C. Bird SM, et al. Addiction. 2016 May;111(5):883-91. doi: 10.1111/add.13265. Epub 2016 Feb 4. Addiction. 2016. PMID: 26642424 Free PMC article.
Effectiveness of Scotland's national naloxone programme.
Fischbacher C, Barnsdale L, Graham L. Fischbacher C, et al. Addiction. 2016 Jul;111(7):1304. doi: 10.1111/add.13352. Epub 2016 Mar 29. Addiction. 2016. PMID: 27028621 No abstract available.

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