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Social Network Overdose Prevention and Education Intervention

A Social Diffusion Fatal Overdose Prevention Intervention: Assessing the Effectiveness of People Who Use Opioids as Peer Educators in Training Using & Non-using Networks on Overdose & Stigma Reduction

Who can join

Ages 18 and older · All sexes

Inclusion Criteria:

* self-reported illicit opioid use at least 2 times in the past two weeks;
* age 18 and older;
* living in the Baltimore metropolitan region;
* willing to engage in peer education; and
* having and willing to recruit at least one non-using network member.

Exclusion Criteria:

Participants without the cognitive ability to provide informed consent and have the physical ability to participate in in-person intervention sessions.

About the study

The purpose of this study is to test a social intervention focused on overdose prevention and care. In the investigators prior work, the investigators have shown that people who use opioids (PWUO) can be effective peer educators (PEs).

What is being tested

• Network overdose prevention (behavioral)
• Standard of care health education (behavioral)

Sponsor: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · Participants: 600 · Started: Jun 1, 2024

Contact the study team

• Carl Latkin, PhD · Phone: (410)955-3972

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06327061

Locations in the U.S.

Conditions

• Opioid Overdose

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Oct 2, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.