New Journal Publication – April 2026

mwiggins — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:54:56 +0000

Stimulant Focused Engagement with Overdose Survivors

Would incorporating stimulant focused strategies into outreach practices help to increase engagement among people who use stimulants? That is what our new article led by Ziming Xuan, ScD, SM, MA helps to explore.

Impact of a stimulant-inclusive post-overdose outreach toolkit on engagement of overdose survivors who use stimulants: An interrupted time series analysis

Publishing Journal: Drug and Alcohol Dependence (DAD)

Online Published Date: April 2026

Authors: Xuan Z, Walley AY, Formica SW, Wang J, Gamble MC, Kosakowski S, Murray S, Wiggins M, Cogan AG, Haley DF, Hyde J, Bagley SM. Impact of a stimulant-inclusive post-overdose outreach toolkit on engagement of overdose survivors who use stimulants: An interrupted time series analysis. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2026 Jun 1;283:113129. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2026.113129. Epub 2026 Apr 20. PMID: 42014260.

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Facilitated Grief Group

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OBJECTIVE

Support After a Death by Overdose (SADOD), a statewide overdose grief organization, facilitated a grief group with frontline POST program workers. During this discussion, a hypothetical outreach scenario was presented where the outreach team unexpectedly encountered grieving family members. The objectives of the discussion were to learn how to: 1) appropriately respond to someone who is experiencing acute grief, 2) provide appropriate resources to grieving family members, and 3) manage grief from secondary trauma experienced by outreach workers engaged in this work. A template for hosting a grief scenario is included in the toolkit, as well as information on how to attend weekly grief groups for outreach workers hosted by SADOD.

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Focus Group Facilitation

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