About the Authors
- Caroline E. Freiermuth
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: Caroline.freiermuth@uc.edu
Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Addiction Research, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Rachel M. Ancona
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America
- Jennifer L. Brown
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Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
- Brittany E. Punches
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Shawn A. Ryan
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Brightview Health LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Tim Ingram
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Hamilton County Public Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
- Michael S. Lyons
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Shawn Ryan serves as the chief science officer for Brightview. He was involved in the study design and the preparation of this manuscript, although he was not involved in the analysis of data. Funding for evaluation was awarded to the University of Cincinnati to fund time for CF, ML, and BP, none of whom received direct payment. Local health systems in the region funded the efforts of Hamilton County Public Health to manage the inventory and distribution efforts. Dr. Ryan was noted as having a potential competing interest, as he serves as the Chief Science Officer for Brightview. This company contributed to funding that allowed for the evaluation of this project. His involvement does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.