Scenario 1- Deana
“Moving Beyond Narcan: A Police, Social Service, and Researcher Collaborative Response to the Opioid Crisis.”
Citation:
White, M. D., Perrone, D., Watts, S., & Malm, A. (2021). Moving Beyond Narcan: A Police,
Social Service, and Researcher Collaborative Response to the Opioid Crisis. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 46(4), 626–
643. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-021-09625-wLinks to an external site.
Summarize why it is useful
This approach is collaborative, using many of the city’s resources such as police, health care and city management
Explain why the solution is useful to both you and your other group members’ discipline(s).
In this article, The Tempe First Responder Opioid Recovery Project in Tempe, Arizona is discussed in its first ten months of being
implemented with Narcan use by police officers and a crisis team, which includes follow up with the addicted person within forty five
days of overdose. The city of Tempe received $2 million dollars from SAMHSA to put together this program to not only use Narcan to
reverse overdoses but to also provide aftercare to lead to treatment to prevent further overdoses. The research used was the
population in 2020 that was 192, 364 residents and found the crime rate was above national crime rates in 2018 at a little over 4,000
per 100,000 residents. There were 471 overdoses in 2017-2018 and naloxone was used on 202 of those patients. That was since some
officers did not have naloxone on them at the time of response.
This is useful in other disciplines such as health care administrators and police administration because these are two parts of the team
that work in conjunction with the program to make this work. “The multidisciplinary partnership includes Tempe police officers, social
workers, peer counselors, public health professionals, police researchers from Arizona State University (ASU), and drug policy and harm
reduction researchers from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB)” (White, Perrone, Watts & Malm, 2021). It would also
involve my discipline, public administration, since drug use is connected to public safety as well as crime, which can affect public
administration in other aspects.
From the article:
Service referrals to date out of 213 case management contacts:
Outpatient treatment services (8)
Enrollment in state-designated severely mentally ill (SMI) services (16)
Re-connect to SMI clinic (4)
Intensive outpatient program (7)
Residential treatment (7)
Inpatient hospitalization (6)
Children services (1)
Pain management (1)
Alcoholics Anonymous (3)
Food stamps (1)
Housing (1)
Employment support (3)
Family support (3)
Narcan kits given—103 kits to 67 people
