Public Health and Pharmacy Partnerships in Opioid Harm Reduction: Responding to Community Needs.

Background: Minnesota pharmacists were encouraged to utilize legislation allowing them to dispense naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug, without prescription. Unfortunately, this legislation has not been utilized widely resulting in preventable death.

Objectives: This study sought to determine how a partnership between public health and academic pharmacy could facilitate community pharmacists' naloxone dispensing.