Opioid Overdose: Harm Reduction
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Opioid Overdose: Harm Reduction
June 03, 2019- Response to patient refusing treatment, wanting to leave the ED
- Use of reflective listening
- Asking non-threatening open-ended questions
- Stressing patient autonomy (i.e. freedom-of-choice)
- Use of the 4 steps of the Brief Negotiation Interview (Permission, Feedback, Enhancing Motivation with Readiness Ruler, and Offering Advice and Negotiating a Plan)
- Addressing the patient’s fatalistic and stigmatizing attitudes
- Introducing Harm Reduction Strategies
- Addressing the overdose risk with co-use of benzodiazepines and opioids
- Avoid using alone
- Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND)
Information
- ID
- 832
- To Cite
- DCA Citation Guide