Peer navigation and take-home naloxone for opioid overdose emergency department patients: Preliminary patient outcomes

- Women and older patients were less likely to get take-home naloxone or recovery coach consultation.
- Death is frequent in the year following an emergency department visit for opioid overdose.
- Less than a third of patients treated for an opioid overdose initiated opioid agonist therapy.
- Patients receiving a recovery coach had shorter time to initiation of opioid agonist therapy.