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Organisation: University of Alberta
Name: gillian harvey
E-Mail: gharvey@ualberta.ca
Category: Healthcare
Name of Project: Design of Overdose Kits for the Province of Alberta
Description of Project: Our research team has been meeting over the last year to redesign the provincial education pamphlets about the
drug Naloxone, an antidote to opioid overdoses. This project, now completed, involved usability testing in in
Edmonton and Calgary and has proven the need to formalize an interdisciplinary team and a larger network in
order to continue this work. Redesigned and tested instructions are
now included in every overdose kit that
are free to every Albertan. There are over
2,000 sites in Alberta, where anyone can
pick up a kit free of charge. A ‘Skyrocketing
number of reversals’ has been reported
indicating that overdose kits are working:
According to the Opioid Response
Surveillance Report, from Jan. 1, 2016 to
Sept. 30, 2019, 195,460 naloxone kits were
dispensed in the province through Alberta
Health Services’ naloxone program, and
12,830 overdose reversals were reported.
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