Recovery Initiation and Management After Overdose (RIMO) Experiment

RIMO uses motivational interviewing and linkage assistance techniques to get people who have had a recent opioid overdose reversal to go to medication-assisted treatment (MAT), stay in MAT, and, if they drop out, go back to MAT treatment.

Currently neither first responders or emergency department staff regularly refer people to any kind of substance use after an opioid overdose reversal. In the passive referral condition they will at least get a brochure with information on recently expanded and publicly-funded medication-assisted treatment in their community.