Virtual Overdose Response

NCT04391192 | Withdrawn

• 1 other identifier: AMH-SCN-05
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: N/A
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

To help prevent deaths in populations that cannot or will not access physical safer consumption services in Alberta, which may disproportionately include women and those who are not able to self-inject (Potier et al., 2014) the investigators propose to provide virtual (phone-based) supervised consumption services, staffed by people with lived experience.

Conditions

Drug Overdose

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Usage

  Number of times participants call the phone line

  3 months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• EMS response time

  3 months

• EMS dispatch outcome

  3 months

Other Outcomes (4)

• Length of calls

  3 months

• Proportion of calls for which EMS is dispatched

  3 months

• Timing of calls

  3 months

Study Arms (1)

Participants

EXPERIMENTAL

All participants will be given the phone number and encouraged to call any time they plan to use substances alone

Behavioral: Virtual Overdose Response

Interventions

Virtual Overdose Response BEHAVIORAL

All participants will be provided the phone number and encouraged to call when they use alone.

Participants

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Able to give informed consent - able to speak and understand English and over 18 years of age
• Admit to using opioids non-medically: using illicit opioids; using prescription opioids without a current prescription; using doses greater than those prescribed; using opioids recreationally
• Have access to a phone line in the location they primarily use opioids: this can be a land line or a cell phone
• Resident of Calgary

You may not qualify if:

• Unable to give informed consent - unable to understand English, under 18 years of age or otherwise not legally able
• Do not knowingly use opioids non-medically
• No access to a phone
• Live outside of Calgary

Sponsors & Collaborators

• AHS Cancer Control Alberta: lead
• Alberta Innovates Health Solutions: collaborator
• AHS Addiction and Mental Health Strategic Clinical Network: collaborator
• TELUS: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Undetermined

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Bristowe SK, Ghosh SM, Trew M; Canadian Mental Health Association - Calgary Region; Rittenbach K. Virtual Overdose Response for People Who Use Opioids Alone: Protocol for a Feasibility and Clinical Trial Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2021 May 12;10(5):e20183. doi: 10.2196/20183.

  PMID: 33978598 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Drug Overdose

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Prescription Drug Misuse; Drug Misuse; Substance-Related Disorders; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Katherine Rittenbach, PhD

  Alberta Health services

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Feasibility of using a phone line to provide overdose response.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 28, 2020
• First Posted: May 18, 2020
• Study Start: September 1, 2020
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2020
• Study Completion: February 1, 2021
• Last Updated: May 25, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)