An Evaluation of a Social Network Intervention for Primary and Secondary Prevention of Opioid Overdoses

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-09-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to pilot and implement a peer mentor intervention focused on overdose prevention and care.

The intervention consists of 3 sessions. During the first and second session, each participant will meet individually with a trained staff member. In the 3rd session, the participant will invite a social network member to attend the session, and these 2 participants will meet with a trained staff member.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Collaborator: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Treatments: Naloxone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria for Index participants:

• self-reported use of opiates including heroin, fentanyl, or prescription opiates to get high at least 2 times in the last two weeks;

• willing to invite a network member who uses drugs to the study;

• ages 18-years or older;

• living in the Baltimore metropolitan region, and

• not previously enrolled in the study or currently enrolled in another Lighthouse study.

Inclusion Criteria for network participants:

• self-reported use of illicit injecting or non-injecting opiates at least 2 times in the last two weeks;

• sees the Index participant 2 or more times in the past week;

• ages 18 years or older; and

• living in the Baltimore metropolitan region.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Index participants may not take part in the study as a Network participant.

• Network participants may not take part in the study as an Index participant.