Development and implementation of an opioid overdose prevention and response program in Toronto, Ontario.

Objectives: We describe the development of the first community-based opioid overdose prevention and response program with naloxone distribution offered by a public health unit in Canada (Prevent Overdose in Toronto, POINT).

Participants: The target population is people who use opioids by any route, throughout the City of Toronto.

Setting: The POINT program is operated by the needle exchange program at Toronto Public Health (The Works) and offered at over 40 partner agency sites throughout Toronto.