Desiree Eide

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Visiting address Kirkeveien 166 Bygg 45 0450 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1039 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Academic interests:

  • Heroin-assisted treatment
  • Overdose prevention with take-home naloxone
  • Implementation and evaluation research
  • Opioid addiction
  • Multi-disciplinary collaboration and research
  • Safe consumption rooms

Teaching at the University of Oslo:

  • GERSYK 4101 Advanced geriatric clinical nursing 1 (2013-2015)
  • GERSYK 4102 Advanced geriatric clinical nursing 2 (2013-2017)
  • GERSYK 4402 Pathophysiology, diseases and treatment (2013-2015)
  • GERSYK 4403 Pharmacology (2014-2016)
  • GERSYK 4404 Systematic clinical assessment (2015-2019)

Background:

Desiree Eide earned her PhD from the University of Oslo for her work relating to the implementation and evaluation of the take-home naloxone program in Norway (2017). She is trained as a Family Nurse Practitioner from Johns Hopkins University in the United States (2012). Her focus has been with vulnerable groups, and she has worked within the addiction field since 2011. Her primary research relates to people addicted to heroin. Additionally, she worked on the development of a geriatric nurse practitioner program at the University of Oslo, and was responsible for teaching several courses for the program (2013-2019).

Previous and ongoing collaborations:

Collaboration with Danish researchers at Aarhus University studying overdoses and outcomes related to opioid maintenance treatment

Collaboration with researchers from the Czech Republic at Charles University using registry data to explore and compare outcomes relating to opioid maintenance treatment

Collaboration with the Norwegian Directorate of Health and Oslo and Bergen municipalities for the evaluation of the distribution of take-home naloxone

Previous research collaboration with King’s College London on a European mixed methods study exploring the effectiveness of take-home naloxone (NalPORS)

Consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for an assessment of opioid overdose management in the Kenyan prison setting

Consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) on indicators for monitoring city progress in the prevention of non-communicable diseases and injuries, with a focus on overdose prevention.  

PhD supervision:

Ongoing PhD projects

Øystein Bruun Ericson: “Overdose prevention with take-home naloxone: exploring outcomes from a national harm reduction program”

Francesca Melis: “Quality of life in heroin-assisted treatment”

Siri Gurandsrud Karlsen: “A clinical study of surgery patients’ experience and drug use in Norway”

Publications

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  • Mcdonald, Rebecca Silvia; Eide, Desiree; Skurtveit, Svetlana Ondrasova & Clausen, Thomas (2024). Pills and the damage done: the opioid epidemic as man-made crisis. Frontiers in Public Health. ISSN 2296-2565. 11. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1241404.
  • Eide, Desiree (2023). Causes of mortality among patients in treatment for opioid use disorder.
  • Eide, Desiree (2023). Mortality causes among OMT patients.
  • Eide, Desiree (2023). Opioids, addiction, and treatment.
  • Eide, Desiree (2023). Nearly a decade of take-home naloxone in Norway.
  • Eide, Desiree (2023). Evidence-base for drug checking services for people who use drugs: report highlights.
  • Eide, Desiree (2023). Meeting people where they're at: harm reduction for people who use drugs .
  • Eide, Desiree (2023). Mortality causes among OMT patients.
  • Eide, Desiree (2022). Evidence-base for safer drug use: stimulants and GHB.
  • Eide, Desiree (2022). Dependence on prescribed medications.
  • Eide, Desiree (2022). To prescribe or not to prescribe? Is that the question?
  • Eide, Desiree (2022). GHB/GBL 1,4-BD: risks and options for safer use.
  • Eide, Desiree (2022). Heroin-assisted treatment: preliminary findings.
  • Eide, Desiree (2022). Who is using take-home naloxone? An examination of super-savers.
  • Eide, Desiree (2022). Ambulance attended overdoses: an examination into overdose locations and the role of the safe injection facility.
  • Eide, Desiree (2022). HAB - som ny behandling i LAR.
  • Eide, Desiree (2022). Who is using take-home naloxone? An examination of super-savers.
  • Eide, Desiree (2021). Overdose management in the prison setting.
  • Eide, Desiree (2021). Different drugs, different risks: practical advice for reducing harm.
  • Eide, Desiree (2019). Recent developments with take-home naloxone in Norway .
  • Eide, Desiree (2018). Web applications for training in the use of naloxone nasal spray to prevent opioid overdoses.
  • Eide, Desiree (2017). Utilizing a train-the trainer model for multi-site naloxone distribution programs.
  • Eide, Desiree (2017). The Norwegian naloxone program: Experiences from implementing and results.
  • Petterson, Aase Grønlien & Madah-Amiri, Desiree (2017). Overdose prevention training with naloxone distribution in a prison in Oslo, Norway: A preliminary study. Harm Reduction Journal. ISSN 1477-7517. 14:74, p. 1–6. doi: 10.1186/s12954-017-0200-z. Full text in Research Archive
  • Eide, Desiree (2016). Widespread distribution of intranasal naloxone: findings from a multi-site overdose prevention porject in Norway .
  • Madah-Amiri, Desiree & Clausen, Thomas (2016). The use of public health infrastructure probably the best strategy for national and large-scale naloxone distribution programmes. Addiction. ISSN 0965-2140. 111(7), p. 1309–1310. doi: 10.1111/add.13400.
  • Eide, Desiree (2015). Overdose prevention with intranasal naloxone: initial findings.
  • Grov, Ellen Karine; Madah-Amiri, Desiree & Kyte, Lars (2015). Klinisk undersøkelse, Grunnleggende kunnskap i klinisk sykepleie Sykepleieboken 1. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202427986. p. 588–618.
  • Eide, Desiree (2014). Norwegian nasal naloxone .
  • Eide, Desiree Soraya; Muller, Ashley Elizabeth & Clausen, Thomas (2019). Behandling av opioiddominert ruslidelse: et prøveprosjekt med heroinassistert behandling. Senter for rus- og avhengighetsforskning (SERAF).
  • Madah-Amiri, Desiree; Clausen, Thomas & Lobmaier, Philipp Paul (2017). Opioid overdoses and overdose prevention: The establishment of take-home naloxone in Norway. Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 978-82-8377-110-7.

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