Orienting patients to greater opioid safety: models of community pharmacy-based naloxone

Traci C. Green1, Emily Dauria2, Jeffrey Bratberg3, Corey S. Davis4, Alexander Y. Walley5
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Injury Prevention Center, 55 Claverick St., 2nd Floor, Providence, Rhode Island, 02903, USA
2The Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, 222 Richmond St, Providence, Rhode Island, 02903, USA
3College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island, 7 Greenhouse Rd, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA
4Network for Public Health Law, Carrboro, North Carolina, USA
5Clinical Addiction Research Education Unit, Boston University School of Medicine/ Boston Medical Center, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, USA

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