@article{ref1,
title="Blue light phones as potential locations for deploying public access naloxone kits on a college campus",
journal="Journal of American college health",
year="2020",
author="Dworkis, Daniel A. and Tang, Willis and Ritcheson, Nicolas Cm and Raviv, Orian and Fowler, Andrew and Ellig, Katelin and Goley, Stephanie and Arora, Sanjay",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="<b>Objective:</b> Opioid use and the risk of opioid overdose are growing public health concerns for college-aged adults. Naloxone can temporarily reverse opioid overdoses, but only if easily accessible. On most college campuses, &quot;blue light&quot; phones (BLPs)-call boxes topped with a blue light-offer visible access to emergency services. We hypothesized that BLPs would provide potential naloxone access points. <b>Participants:</b> A major university campus in Los Angeles, CA. <b>Methods:</b> BLP locations were obtained using Google Maps, and the area of campus within a set distance to each BLP calculated. To model effects of loss or diversion, we simulated the random loss of various BLPs. <b>Results:</b> Placing naloxone kits at the 59 BLP locations could provide access within 100 m to 91.5% of the campus. With loss of half of the BLPs, campus access remained above 70%. <b>Conclusions:</b> Naloxone at BLP locations could be accessed from almost all campus areas.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0744-8481",
doi="10.1080/07448481.2020.1726931",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2020.1726931"
}