Publications by authors named "Chin Hwa Gina Dahlem"
Background:: Law enforcement officers (LEO) often are the first responders to arrive at a scene of an opioid overdose. Thus, equipping LEOs as first responders with naloxone is necessary to prevent overdose deaths, and a recommended strategy. However, little is known about how LEOs perceive naloxone training and their feelings after using naloxone to save a life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Law enforcement officers (LEOs) often are the first responders to arrive at a scene of an opioid overdose. Thus, equipping LEOs as first responders with naloxone is necessary to prevent overdose deaths and a recommended strategy. However, little is known about how LEOs perceive naloxone training and their feelings after using naloxone to save a life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffective interventions for overdose survivors are needed in the emergency departments (EDs). One promising model is the use of peer recovery coaches to engage with survivors in EDs, followed by partnering with community case management navigators to connect survivors to recovery support and treatment services. This paper describes the evaluation of a pilot program, the Recovery Opioid Overdose Team (ROOT), a warm hand-off system that links survivors to treatment services post-ED discharge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study describes the implementation and evaluation of revised opioid overdose prevention and education of naloxone training for law enforcement officers (LEOs) that added: (1) a recovery testimony and (2) the process for deputy-initiated referrals postnaloxone administration.
Design And Sample: Evaluation regarding the naloxone training included a pre- and postopioid overdose knowledge surveys (N = 114) and subsequent 1-year postnaloxone training outcomes.
Results: Pre- and posttest scores for all knowledge outcome measures were statistically significant (p < .